Sukrut is an institution committed to the promotion of knowledge and practice in psychoanalysis. Incorporated in 2003 to address challenges in mental health, she began to offer training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, supported with intersubjective studies and Group Relations. Professionals trained in Sukrut comfortably connect with the inner world of feelings so as to identify the toxicity that builds in the self and in systems.
Contact usSukrut is an institution committed to the promotion of knowledge and practice in psychoanalysis. Incorporated in 2003 to address challenges in mental health, she began to offer Internships in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, supported with Intersubjective Study and Seminars. Professionals trained in Sukrut comfortably connect with the inner world of feelings so as to identify the toxicity that builds in the self and in systems. In both personal and group therapy, as well as in consulting with education, social entrepreneurship, government, and industry, Sukrut helps business leaders identify the psychodynamics of systems that inhibit growth and development.
Psychotherapy for stressed individuals,
Education and Research promoting psychoanalytic thinking and reflection,
Training of psychoanalytic psychotherapists – internships in the Inward Change Conference (ICC) and completing all parts of the Intersubjective Study and Seminars,
Consulting to education, industry and Government on Leadership and Organization Psychodynamics,
International Conference on Psychoanalytic Practice and Reflection, and Publication of Citta, India’s journal promoting psychoanalytic reflections.
Centered on the dialectics of listening to individuals, the psychotherapeutic interventions have helped Give Voice, Tell the Story, and start Internal Dialogues:
Give Voice: The individual is invited to speak from experience along with associated feelings. The therapist shares anecdotes from personal history, which builds a safe and compassionate space.
Tell the Story: A person enters psychotherapy because the burden of personal history has become too intense and is turning toxic. The re-telling and re-working of stories of loss, pain, grief, guilt, disappointment, and frustration bring about profound relief and resolution.
Internal Dialogues: The interventions are psychoanalytic. In terms of specific dialogue
structures, the work with the parts, modes, or selves will usually take one of these three
forms:
1. The parts co-exist which means that the individual speaks from two different internal
parts but the parts do not dialogue with each other, or
2. The parts engage with each other directly – which is usually a form of cognitive
restructuring or polarity rebalancing, or
3. One part witnesses the others within a third framework.
Dialogue is a central vehicle for individuals to express their love, anger, fear, and grief. It
also provides an opportunity for people to develop their capacity for assertiveness and
find their voice. Using this framework, Sukrut facilitates the exploration of ways to:
1. Resolve inner conflict / tensions and make proactive decisions,
2. Heal from loss,
3. Engage the inner critic / challenge self-hatred, and
4. Develop the courage to test untested assumptions and fears.
Sukrut’s approach is embedded in India’s civilizational heritage of relatedness in the family, the community, the nation. Consequently, psychotherapists apply a model of analysis that deploys a simple 3-D lens – surfacing unconscious introjections and transferences from experiences of deprivation, denial, discrimination in infancy and early childhood. The theoretical foundations are informed by Indian psychoanalytic thought as well as the fundamentals of transference and projective identification espoused by Freud / Klein / Jung.
Beginning with the self, Sukrut facilitates owning the disowned / making the invisible, visible / acting the withheld.
Despite helping millions of individual patients and impacting current culture, many people still regard psychoanalysis as the domain of gray-bearded, pipe-smoking physicians seated behind patients lying prone on red-felt, Victorian-era couches. These images need edit and update. Like Girindrasekhar Bose, Sukrut psychotherapists offer a revision and often meet individuals in peaceful surroundings, free of the confines of a couch and the sixty-minute commercial time trap.
A Sukrut-trained Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist belongs to a cadre of professionals competent in:
1. the diagnosis of the human condition, and offer relief and cure from personal stress and anguish,
2. the diagnosis of the psychodynamics of business and organization,
3. facilitating events in ICC and International Group Relations, but above all
4. offer solutions from their deep intellectual understanding of the Indian ethos and personal compassion, which is different from the ethos and preoccupations of Western psychoanalytic traditions.