Manisha Roy

Brief Biography of Manisha Roy

Manisha Roy, Ph.D, IAAP, is a trained geographer and anthropologist who received her diploma in analytical psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich, Switzerland in 1982. She has been in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is a training analyst and in the faculty of the Jung Institute of Boston for twenty-five years.

Born and brought up in eastern part of India, Manisha came to the US for higher studies at age twenty. For most of her adult life she has taught both anthropology and analytical psychology at several universities including the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and lectured all over the world.

Her publications include twenty-eight articles and six books, two of which are fiction and two are in her mother tongue Bengali. Her first book Bengali Women (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1976, 1993) has gone through two printings and two editions and is mow available electronically.. This book has been a text at many Women’s Studies departments of various universities. She co-edited with Lena B. Ross the only book on ethics in analytic practice at the time titled Cast the First Stone: Ethics in Analytic Practice (Chiron, 1995). Besides being a writer and traveler, Manisha Roy is an avid gardener, cook and painter (watercolor).

Dr. Roy lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her Swedish-American husband, Carl von Essen. a retired physician and author.