Mamta Dadlani
Professional Work History
Education and Training
2025-2026 Psychoanalytic Hub for Online Liberatory Education, 1 year program
2021-2022 Fellowship, The Psychotherapy Institution, Supervision Study Program
2015-2018 Sotomayor Fellowship, Smith College School for Social Work
2012-2014 Fellowship, Massachusetts Institution of Psychoanalysis 2-Year Program
2012-2013 Scholar, Multicultural Concerns in the Division of Psychoanalysis
2011-2012 Doctoral Internship, University of Pennsylvania
2009-2012 Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Malleable racial identity in multiracial individuals: A paradigm for the integration of race and identity in the United States.
2005-2009 M.S., Clinical Psychology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Countertransference behavior and therapy alliance as a function of therapist self-insight
2002-2005 Clinical Intern, Sackler-Lefcourt Center for Child Development, NYC
Selected Presentations and Workshops
Mamta's research and writing focuses on integrating social justice and mental health with attention to individual, socio-political, and historical processes. She has presented her work at professional conferences and community spaces regularly over the past 15 years, and she welcomes collaboration in all aspects of her work.
Performing Inscrutability: A Relational Practice.
Co-Presentation with The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis (TAACP) at the North California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, San Francisco, CA. 2026.
Institutional Desecration and Making Space for the Sacred.
Presentation at the 45th Annual Spring Meeting of the American Psychological Association Division of Psychoanalysis (39) Meeting, New York, NY. 2026.
An Introduction to the Relational Model of Psychodynamic Supervision and an Analysis of Power.
Presentation at The Psychotherapy Institute's Supervision Training Program, Berkeley. 2025.
The Hope is Over, The Fight Goes On: Listening Deeply to Unspeakable Pain
Presentation at the 44th Annual Spring Meeting of the American Psychological Association Division of Psychoanalysis (39) Meeting, Virtual Conference. 2025.
Queer Families Coming to Be.
Presentation at the 43th Annual Spring Meeting of the American Psychological Association Division of Psychoanalysis (39) Meeting, Washington DC. 2024
Designated Leadership through Embodied Enactments and Generative Conflict: Speaking Truth and Taking Action.
Leadership award acceptance speech at the 42st Annual Spring Meeting of the American Psychological Association Division of Psychoanalysis (39) Meeting, New York, NY. 2023.
Addressing Diversity though Social Identity Assessment: Clinical Theory and Practical Skills.
Daylong continuing education seminar co-sponsored with the Vermont Psychological Association. 2023.
Reverie, Power, and Making Use of Internalized Oppression.
Invited workshop with clinical staff at Silver Lake Psychotherapy, Los Angeles, CA. 2022
Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks at 70.
Keynote presentation at the Contemporary Freudian Society, New York, NY. 2022.
Psychoanalysis After Fanon.
Plenary presentation at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 2021.
Reckoning with Anti-Blackness and Failures in Mentalization.
Presentation at the 40th Annual Spring Meeting of the American Psychological Association Division of Psychoanalysis (39) Meeting, Virtual Conference. 2021.
Microaggression in the Countertransference.
Presentation at the 39th Annual Spring Meeting of the American Psychological Association Division of Psychoanalysis (39) Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. 2019.
Selected Publications
Dadlani, M.B. (2024). Religion in the therapy room: Reflections on the Beloved by a child of the Indian diaspora. Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 11(1), 20-25. https://doi.org/10.1037/scp0000341
Lasheen, T.A. & Dadlani, M.B. (2023). Troubling un(happiness): Finding pathways toward liberatory embodiment. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 24(1), 35-42.
Dadlani, M.B. (2021, May 17). New Voices: Capitalism. The Psychoanalytic Activist.
https://psychoanalyticactivist.com/2021/05/17/new-voices-capitalism/
Dadlani, M.B. (2020). Queer use of psychoanalytic theory as a path to decolonization: A narrative analysis of Kleinian object relations. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 21(2), 119-126.
Dadlani, M.B., Overtree, C., & Perry-Jenkins, M. (2012). Culture at the center: A reformulation of diagnostic assessment. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 43(3), 175-182.
Professional Affiliations
Society of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility
The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis
National Queer and Trans Therapist of Color Network
Postpartum Support International
Smith College School for Social Work
Service
2024-2026 Co-Chair, Training and Education Committee, Section IX-Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility
2025-2026 Steering Committee, 45th Annual Meeting, Division of Psychoanalysis
2023-2026 Member-at-Large, Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy's Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility
2017-2023 Founder and Co-Chair, Dialogue Across Difference Task Force, Division 39
2017-2023 Mentor, Division of Psychoanalysis
2017-2020 Mentor, The Psychotherapy Institute, Berkeley CA
2017-2018 Conference Co-Chair, Reflective Spaces, Material Places Conference Planning Committee
2015-2018 Awards Committee, Division of Psychoanalysis APA
2014-2017 President, Board of Beats, Rhymes, and Life, Inc. Oakland, CA
