Manisha Roy, Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst and author in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

She was born and raised in a small oil town at the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas at the border of India, Tibet and Myanmar. After earning a master’s degree in geography at the University of Calcutta, she came to the United States and studied anthropology, earning a second master’s degree, from the University of Rochester, and a Ph.D. from the University of California San Diego.

Dr. Roy later went on to Switzerland where she trained as a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich. She is currently in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she lives with her husband, retired physician and author Dr. Carl von Essen.

She has been a training analyst and on the faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute of Boston for thirty-five years. She has taught both anthropology and analytical psychology at several universities in the United States, India, and Switzerland and has lectured in 70 cities throughout the world.

Dr. Roy writes in two languages and has authored 12 books and nearly 50 articles. Her first book, Bengali Women, originally published in 1976, is frequently used in women’s studies courses at various universities and is still in print, now in its second edition.

She is co-editor of the book, Cast the First Stone: Ethics in Analytic Practice, which looks at the symbolic attitude in the analyst-analysand relationship. Her memoir, My Four Homes, brings us into the worlds of her grandfather, her grandmother, her parents, and her own. And her latest book, Women: Stereotypes & Archetypes, published by Chiron in 2019, explores the issue of women’s identity across many cultures, and it is the subject of our talk today.

NEW: Dr. Roy’s novel, Professor Hamilton’s Passage to India, was re-released by Chiron Publications on Feb. 15, 2022.

This interview was recorded on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. It’s 01:43:02 long and 72.8 MB. You can listen to it right here in your browser or download it directly to your computer. It’s also available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, and iHeartRadio.

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