Amulya Malladi is a diasporic Indian writer in English, well known for her seven novels namely A Breath of Fresh Air (2002), The Mango Season (2003), Serving Crazy with Curry (2004), Song of the Cuckoo Bird (2005), The Sound of Language (2007), A House for Happy Mothers (2016) and The Copenhagen Affair (2017). She received her Bachelor Degree in Electronics Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad India and Master Degree in Journalism from the University of Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Her novels have been translated into many languages like Dutch, German, Spanish, Danish, Romanian, Serbian and Tamil.\r\nThe present paper examines Malladi’s latest novel The Copenhagen Affair (2017), in which the heroine Sanya is captivated by a swirl of infidelity, corporate intrigue, and the particular habits of Copenhagen’s café class. She undergoes a nervous breakdown in her forties due to depression and stress. According to Carl Jung’s analytical psychology theory, Sanya goes through the stages of stable introvert, unstable introvert, unstable extrovert and finally becomes an ambivert. In the beginning of the novel, Sanya is a stable introvert who works smartly but \r\n\r\nEven after fifteen years of experience her efforts are not recognised and the management fails to appreciate her. This makes her mentally sick. The loving, caring and optimistic Sanya gets completely collapsed. She denies doing even the simplest work at home. She sleeps all day under her duvet and becomes an unstable introvert. To cure her neuroticism her husband Harry takes her to Copenhagen, the capital city of the world’s happiest country Denmark for a year. Although the trip is professional for Harry this brings a great change in Sanya’s psyche. In Copenhagen, she moves from the state of unstable introvert to unstable extrovert. Her husband’s infidelity paves a way for Sanya’s breakthrough. Sanya falls in love with Anders Ravn, the owner of IT Foundry Company which Harry and his team is about to purchase because he sees Sanya in a way that Harry failed to see. The search for happiness, love, balance and meaning of life makes Sanya to get completely immerse into a deep depression and the realisation finally makes her to transform herself as an ambivert

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