Dr. Parul Bansal

Papers Published in Journals :

  • Bansal, P. (2025). 50 years of ‘Social Psychology as History’: Contemporary Trends in Social Psychology. Psychological Studies (Indexed in Scopus; Emerging Sources Citation)
  • Bisaria, V. & Bansal, P. (2025). Trends and directions in acculturation research. Culture and Psychology. Online First (Indexed in Social Science Citation and Scopus)
  • Ghosh, R. & Bansal, P. (2025). A Social Psychological Investigation of Anti-Nationalism in Contemporary India – A Media Analysis. Culture and Psychology. Online First (Indexed in Social Science Citation and Scopus)
  • Bansal, P. (2023). The (Im)possibility of the Royal Road to Global Psychology. Psychological Studies. (Indexed in Scopus and Emerging Sources Citation)
  • Bansal, P. (2023). Deconstructing Binarism of Psycho-Social. Trends in Psychology. Online First  (Indexed in Scopus)
  • Bansal, P. (2022). Insurrections of Indigenous Knowledges: Debating ‘Critical’ in Indigenous Psychologies. Culture and Psychology. Online First ( Indexed in Social Science Citation and Scopus)
  • Bansal, P. (2022). Beyond the sentimentality of love in mother-son dyad: A Psychoanalytic re-reading of cultural myths from India. Free Associations: Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics, 87, 68-80. (Indexed in Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Web)
  • Chaudhary, N., Mishra, G., Bansal, P., Valsiner, J. & Singh, T. (2022). Making Sense of Culture for the Psychological Sciences. Review of General Psychology, Vol. 0(0) 1–17 (Indexed in Social Sciences Citation and Scopus)
  • Bansal, P. (2021). Resistance as a cultural universal of human psyche: A dialectical view. Integrative psychological and behavioural science. Online First. (Indexed in Social Science Citation and Scopus)
  • Bansal, P. (2021). Dialoguing on ‘Resistance’ from Intersubjective Psychoanalysis and Semiotic Cultural Psychology standpoints. Human Arenas, 4, 294-301. (Indexed in Scopus; Emerging Sources Citation)
  • Bansal, P. (2021). The Ravaged Psyche: Impact of COVID 19 Pandemic on the Human Mind. Human Arenas, 5(4): 694–706. (Indexed in Scopus; Emerging Sources Citation)
  • Bansal, P. (Oct 2020). Big and Small Stories from India in the COVID19 Plot: Directions for a Post-colonial Psychology. Integrative psychological and behavioural science, 55:47-72. (Indexed in Social Science Citation and Scopus)
  • Bansal, P. (December 2019). Psychoanalytic Musings on the Dynamics of Greed and Its Containment: A Perspective from India. Free Associations: Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics, 77, 73-90. (Indexed in Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Web)
  • Bansal, P. (March 2017). Researching the use of Psychoanalysis in narrative inquiries. Psychological Studies,62(1), 98-108. (Indexed in Scopus and Emerging Sources Citation)
  • Bansal, P. (April and July 2005). Change and Continuity: Reflections on Identity in Youth. Psychological Studies, 50(2&3), 205-211. (Indexed in Scopus and Emerging Sources Citation)

Book(s) Authored :

  • Bansal, P. (2024). Re-envisioning Psychology: Debating Paradigmatic Foundations. Routledge (ISBN: 9781032749938). DOI: 10.4324/9781003471851
  • Bansal, P. (2019). Psychology: Debates and Controversies. New Delhi: Sage (ISBN: 978-93-532-8083-3)
  • Bansal, P. (2013). Youth in contemporary India: Images of identity and social change. New Delhi: Springer (ISBN: 978-81-322-0714-6)

Chapters in Edited Books:

  • Bansal, P. (2025). A Critical interrogation of ‘Developmentalism’ in Developmental Psychology: Paving a way for Critical-Cultural Thinking. In M.Tuli and N. Chaudhary (eds.). Reframing Developmental Psychology: Perspectives from The Global South. Emerald Publishing.
  • Bansal, P. (2022). Identity Development in Adolescents. In Patra, S. (ed.) Adolescence in India. Issues, Possibilities and Challenges (pp. 37-58). Springer, Singapore. (ISBN: 978-981-16-9880-4) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9881-1
  • Bansal, P. (2021). Social and Psychological Perspectives on Identity (Unit 3). In Block – 2 Youth and Identity, Youth, Gender and Identity (BPCG-172). IGNOU eGyankosh (ISBN: 978-93-5568-206-2)
  • Bansal, P. (2021). Education, Career and Peer Group (Unit 4). In Block – 2 Youth and Identity, Youth, Gender and Identity (BPCG-172). IGNOU eGyankosh (ISBN: 978-93-5568-206-2)
  • Bansal, P. (2021). Youth Culture: Impact of Media and Globalization (Unit 5). In Block – 2 Youth and Identity, Youth, Gender and Identity (BPCG-172). IGNOU eGyankosh (ISBN: 978-93-5568-206-2)
  • Bansal, P. (2021). Self and Identity Development (Unit 2). In Block 1 Psychology and Self, Psychology for Living (BPCG – 175, GE of Bachelors Degree). IGNOU eGyankosh (ISBN: 978-93-5568-146-1)
  • Bansal, P. (2021). Components of Self (Unit 3). In Block 1 Psychology and Self, Psychology for Living (BPCG – 175, GE of Bachelors Degree). IGNOU eGyankosh (ISBN: 978-93-5568-146-1)

Papers Presented in National/International Conferences :

  • Bansal, P. (2020). Psychic Construction of COVID19 Pandemic, at The Psychology of       Global Crises – State Surveillance, Solidarity and Everyday Life.
    Global Online Conference at The American University of Paris.
  • Bansal, P. (2018). Women’s Identities: Stories of Social Change in India, at XXVIIIth Congress of National Academy of Psychology.
  • Bansal, P. (2018). From Destructive Greed to Containment of Greed: Psychoanalytic Musings, at Fifth International Psychoanalytic Conference.
  • Bansal, P. (2015). Mapping Fatherhood: Tasks and Dilemmas, at Indo-French Second Annual Psychoanalytic Conference.
  • Bansal, P. (2010). Narrative Study of Lives: Evolving an alternative methodological approach, XXth Annual Convention of National Academy of Psychology.
  • Bansal, P. (2007). Social Change and Youth Identity, XXXI Indian Social Science Congress.
  • Bansal, P. (2004). Continuities and Change: Some Reflections on Identity in Youth, National Seminar on ‘Identity in Youth: Socio-Cultural Perspectives’.

Invited Resource Person/Panelist/Speaker :

2025

  • Speaker in Symposium titled ‘Rethinking Social-Psychological Research: Recent Trends in Methodological Innovations” at 34th National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) Conference, held at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Delhi-NCR campus, on 18th February 2025
  • Panelist in panel discussion titled ‘From Personal to Political’ at 34th National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) Conference, held at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Delhi-NCR campus, on 19th February 2025

2024

  • Speaker in APA Webinar titled ‘Communities as Containers of Suffering: Images from India’ organized by APA Divisions 52 and 17 under the Visions from the Global South Webinar series on March 28, 2024

2023

  • Speaker in a session titled ‘Freud, Femininity and Feminism’ organized by Political Science Association, Lady Shri Ram College for Women on October, 16, 2023

2022

  • Speaker in Symposium titled ‘Social change – Cultural change? Examples from 7 societies’ at the 26th International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology on July 15, 2022.
  • Speaker in Symposium titled ‘Critical Scholarship and the Psychology Classroom : Challenging Resistance and Fostering Imagination under 31st Convention of NAOP ON 5th March, 2022.

2021

  • Resource Person in Psychoanalytically Informed Research Methodology in NAOP-JNU Workshop Series under ARTS “Advanced Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology, on 30th October, 2021.

2020

  • Panelist in the keynote Panel Discussion on Positive Strategic Interventions for Sustainable Development at the ICBPO, organized by Christ (Deemed to be University), Delhi-NCR on 7th November, 2020
  • Presenter in the symposium on Building Positive Classroom in the University Campuses at the ICBPO, organized by Christ (Deemed to be university), Delhi-NCR on 7th November, 2020
  • Resource Person for a session on ‘Youth and Identity’ for Youth-n-Democracy Fellowship organized by Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)-Youth on 1st November, 2020
  • Panelist for ‘Conversations with Jaan Valsiner’, a webinar hosted by Cultural Psychology Division of NAOP on 4 August, 2020.
  • Visiting Faculty at Vedica Scholars’ Program for Women, a professional certificate program in management practice during February 2020. Curated and taught five sessions of two hours each for a course titled ‘Psychological Insights into Lifeworlds’.

2019

  • Resource Person for a session on ‘Youth and Identity’ for Youth-n-Democracy Fellowship organized by Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)-Youth on 3rd November, 2019.
  • Panelist at “मज़मा–ए–आज़ाद 2.0” on ‘Youth Identity and Education’ on the occasion of International Youth Day organized by Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)-Youth on 9th August, 2019.
  • Resource Person for a session on ‘Personality Development and Positive Mindset’ for Non Teaching staff of Jesus and Mary College (JMC) conducted as a part of the Self Enhancement Workshop by JMC, University of Delhi on 26th June, 2019.

2018

  • Resource Person for a workshop ‘Methodological aspects of psychosocial clinical research’ for the PhD in Psychology scholars of Ambedkar University, Delhi on 8th-9th  February, 2018.

2017

  • Resource Person for two sessions of the ‘Non Professional Helpers Program’ for teachers of Daulat Ram College (DRC) conducted by the Department of Psychology, DRC, University of Delhi on 22nd May, 2017.

2014

  • Speaker at TEDx LSR in 2014. Talk ‘Are we Free? Images of Individuality’ hosted by TED channel at Youtube.