Other Lullabies: Attacks on Blackness, Confusion of Tongues, and the Loss of Play

Licensed psychoanalyst with a background in philosophy and literary studies. He has been a faculty member at the Contemporary Freudian Society and the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance. Padrón was also a faculty member at IPTAR where he co-taught a class on clinical aspects of diversity. He teaches the Seminar on Psychodynamic Theory (Masters in Social Work) at the Silberman School of Social Work. Padrón participated in the documentary Psychoanalysis in El Barrio a film on working psychoanalytically with poor and working class Latinx patients in the U.S., and has given talks and published on clinical issues related to diversity, and on community psychoanalysis. Lately he published an essay in the edited volume Psychoanalysis in the Barrios (Routledge, 2019) entitled “The Political Potentiality of the Psychoanalytic Process”, and the text “Pandemic Diary: 19 Fragments” for a special issue of Psychoanalytic Psychology titled “Notes from a Pandemic: A Year of COVID-19.” He was invited to give an Austen Riggs Grand Rounds Presentation entitled “Reimagining Community in the Psychoanalytic Field”. Padrón has worked psychoanalytically in different settings and is currently a clinical associate of the New School Psychotherapy Program where he supervises PhD students in psychology. He is the co-founder of the New York Center for Community Psychoanalysis. IG: @carlospadron_psychoanalysis.