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The Doctor and Mrs. A: Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis 

Fordham University Press, November 2019

Sarah Pinto
Professor, Anthropology
Chair, Anthropology
CHAT Faculty Fellow, 2009-2010; 2016-2017

In the years leading up to India’s independence, a young Punjabi woman known to us only as Mrs. A., ill at ease in her marriage and eager for personal and national freedom, sat down with psychiatrist Dev Satya Nand for an experiment in his new and “Oriental” method of dream analysis.