Marital Knot
What binds people together in marriage? The Marital Knot examines the differences between arranges marriages and love marriage and explores the ties that bind. It shares the story of one of Dr. Shabnamzehra Bhojani’s patients, Sarah, who enters into an arranged marriage after arriving in the US. Using Sarah’s story and her own experience with an arranged marriage as a catatlyst, Dr. Bhojani compares arranged marriages to love marriages. She presents a study of commitment, hate, anger, revenge, empathy, forgiveness, and mourning, including clinical examples every step of the way. The Marital Knot concludes with a discussion of empathy, forgiveness, and mourning: the necessary elements for maintaining commitment and repairing betrayals.
Shabnamzehra Bhojani
Shabnamzehra Bhojani is a Psychiatrist, Child Psychiatrist, and a Psychanalyst-in-training. She holds a Masters in Medical Sciences, Doctorate in Medicine, and completed her Psychiatry Residency at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in New York before completing her Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Bhojani is the CEO and Found of Healthy Minds Physician, PLLC, where she does psychoanalysis, intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy, medication management, forensic psychiatric evaluations for civil, criminal cases as well as child custody and immigration. She is also the Medical Director of four locations for the Advocate Center for Queens, NY, which treats opiate dependence, needle exchange, opiate intoxication, withdrawal and illicit drug addictions. Dr. Bhojani is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Queens Psychiatric Association, and speaks five languages: English, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, and Marathi. She currently resides in Forest Hills, New York.
