The Challenges Before Us: A Response to Noha Sadek’s Paper “Racial Justice in Psychoanalytic Communities”

ABSTRACT

This is an attempt to respond to Sadek’s efforts to examine psychoanalytic training institutions’ efforts to diversify its candidate pools while leaving intact their traditional social, economic, and political structures that are foundationally based on a privileging of whiteness and the lack of recognition of the diversity within not-white populations that the institutes wishes to bring into their training environments.

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Annie Lee Jones

Annie Lee Jones, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. At the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), she is a fellow, supervisor, member of the Board, and also a Co-Chair of the Arts and Society Committee. She is teaching faculty at Adelphi University, NYU postdoctoral program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, The Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, and The Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. She is also a member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak, Inc. Her community work is both clinic based and in her private practice in Queens, NY. She has published several articles relevant to the everyday lived experiences of Black women as well as on the impact of anti-Black policies on Black Americans. She is currently writing a series of short stories about the life of her paternal grandmother who was born into and freed from slavery in rural Georgia.