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.