Dr. Ameeta Parsuram
Dr. Ameeta Parsuram
retired as Associate Professor of Psychology from Jesus & Mary College,
University of Delhi, in Dec.2020, having taught Psychology for 40 years. While
almost every subfield of Psychology has been taught by her, her personal
interest and preference includes Clinical Psychology/Counselling, Gender
Studies, Social Psychology and Developmental Psychology. As a
Psychologist, most of her works focused on making Psychology ‘applicable’ such
that it could contribute to enhancing the quality of life, for those very
people, which Psychology claims to study! Beyond teaching, her endeavors have
been focused on conducting training workshops. She has carried out workshops
for 25 years at Corporate and school levels as well. She has been a resource
person in national/International Conferences/Panel Discussions. Two special
programs being at the invite of GE, GE Women’s Asia Network Summit (Malaysia)
& GE Asia Talent Forum (Japan), where delegates from ten different
countries participated in the workshops conducted by Ameeta. Most of her work
revolves around Gender-related issues, Effective Interpersonal Relationships,
Mental Health and Human Belief Systems. She follows & practices the
Cognitive-behavioral paradigm of Psychology. Ameeta’s
second passion is to write Urdu Poetry. Her poetry reflects a spread of all the
concerns mentioned above, albeit in a different language and style. In 2019,
she started speaking on public platforms against whats called ‘Khawateen Ka
Mushaira’ (Women’s Mushaira), in favor of combined Mushaira with men &
women sharing the same platform, on grounds of good poetry only. Her Shayiri is published in a book entitled
‘Ishq Lamhe’ by Vani Prakashan Group. At present she is working on a book which
compiles powerful contributions by women poets in the last 150 years.