Ritika Singh

Ritika Singh is a doctoral candidate in psychology at the Global Center for Advanced Studies in Dublin and a psychodynamic existential psychotherapist. Her clinical work focuses on trauma, identity disturbance, and the intergenerational transmission of unprocessed affect. She works extensively with patients who struggle with early relational disruptions, dissociative patterns, and conflicts around desire and self-representation. Her research examines maternal affect and feminine subjectivity in contemporary India, with particular attention to how early atmospheres of care or deprivation shape the daughter’s internal world. Her theoretical orientation draws on Freud, Klein, and, and is further informed by the contributions of Beauvoir, Irigaray, and Fanon to the study of subjectivity and social embeddedness. She is interested in states that remain pre-verbal or unmentalised and in the clinical conditions that allow such states to be symbolised and integrated. Her work seeks to place psychoanalytic understanding in conversation with cultural forces that mould psychic life. She maintains a private practice and continues to develop clinically grounded scholarship on the formation, and transformation of the self.