Beyond Mourning & Melancholia
Overview
The ongoing demand, if not the need, from psychotherapists is to stay close to the felt and inconsolable process of grieving. This experiential workshop draws from the work of Freud, Abraham and Torok as we engage with the depths of this process through a psychoanalytic lens using case excerpts.
The participants will be encouraged to read two papers before the talk: Mourning & Melancholia, Beyond Mourning & Melancholia.
What This Workshop Will Explore
- A deeper understanding of what happens when one is grieving
- How the mind adapt, in hope or despair, to a loss?
- An entry into the foundational works of Freud, Abraham & Torok on the structures of griefAbout the Facilitator
Ms. Mihika Ghoshal is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist & Expressive Arts Therapy Practitioner at
Lost & Found Psychotherapy. She works at the intersections of creative arts and psychoanalysis to
contribute to community mental health projects on gender based violence and queer mental health.
