Scholarly Papers
"Negation Trauma, Unrepresented States, and a Fiction Shaped by the Setting"
The Journal of Psychohistory | Volume 51, No. 3 | Winter 2024
Dr. Gupta’s ongoing academic contributions are deeply informed by her clinical practice. She has presented her papers at national and international conferences and seminars. Dr. Gupta’s papers focus on experiences of early trauma and it’s lingering legacy in adult life.
Visiting Faculty
- Instructor, Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
- Instructor, The Psychotherapy Institute, Berkeley, CA
Scholarly Works
2026
2025
IARPP - Between Dying and Rearranging Oneself:
Negation Trauma and the Collapse of the “Democratic Third”
-Athens, Greece
IPhA* - Between Dying and Rearranging Oneself:
Negation Trauma and the Collapse of the “Democratic Third”
-New York
2024
IPhA* - Estranged from Oneself
Negation, Trauma, Unrepresented States, and a Fiction Shaped by the Setting
-New York
2023
IPhA - The Frankenstein Metaphor
Encountering the Mindless Intent to Destroy and the Analytic Task of Staying Alive
-New York
Sándor Ferenczi Conference - The Frankenstein Metaphor
Encountering the Mindless Intent to Destroy and the Analytic Task of Staying Alive
-Budapest, Hungary
(Accepted but not presented)
NCSPP Seminar/Paper
Estranged from Oneself: Lost and Found and the Making of Psychic Shapes
-San Francisco
2022
IPhA* - Panel: Caring for Self and Others
Presentation: Excerpts and Key Concepts from “Estranged from Oneself” Paper
-New York
IARPP (2020 Rescheduled) - The Frankenstein Metaphor
Encountering the Mindless Intent to Destroy and the Analytic Task of Staying Alive
-Los Angeles
2021
IPhA - Estranged from Oneself
Unrepresented and Negated Psychic States
-New York
2020
TPI Seminar - Finding Frankenstein
An Intersubjective Encounter with Unrepresented States and Trauma-Based Nonsymbolic Object
-Berkeley, CA
TPI Seminar - Psychic Collisions
Analytic Collisions with the Unthinkable
-Berkeley, CA
IPhA - Finding Frankenstein
An Intersubjective Entry into a Minefield of Annihilation and Intrapsychic Catastrophe
-New York
2019
IPhA - Estranged from Oneself
Socially Derived Constructions of Self from an Intersubjective, Psychoanalytic Model
-New York
TPI - Seminar
Finding Frankenstein and the Search for the Unrepresented and Unsymbolized
-Berkeley, CA
2018
NCSPP - Finding Frankenstein
An Intersubjective Encounter with Unraveled Minds and the Unfolding of an Unstoppable Human Tragedy
-San Francisco, California
13th International Sándor Ferenczi Conference
Finding Ferenczi’s Frankenstein: An Intersubjective Encounter with Unrepresented States and a Trauma-Based Nonsymbolic Object
-Florence, Italy
2017
IPA - The Fabrication of Intimacy
An Intersubjective Encounter with Unrepresented States and a Trauma-Based Nonsymbolic Object
-Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015
IARPP - Thinking About Trauma
The Analyst's Encounter with the Unthinkable in Psychoanalytic Theory and the Clinical Setting
-Toronto, Canada
IPA - When the Mind Does Not Arrive
The Negative of Trauma and the Encounter with a Nonsymbolic Object
-Boston, Massachusetts
Also presented at:
2016 APA/Div.39
Denver, Colorado
2017 JAP
New York, New York
2017 NCSPP
San Francisco, California
2011
IPA - The Disappearing Analyst
The Experience of a No-Object in the Transference/Countertransference
-Mexico City, Mexico
2009
IPFEE - Left Too Long
The Silent Catastrophe of the Self and the Presence of a Nonexistent Object
-Seattle, Washington
2007
IARPP - Left Too Long
The Silent Catastrophe of the Self and the Presence of a Nonexistent Object
-San Francisco, California