Adaptive challenges in the consulting room: A discussion of Sue Grand’s “Skin memories: On race, love and loss”

About the AuthorKimberlyn Leary is a Senior Policy Advisor to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and a 2014–2015 Robert Wood Johnson Fellow in Health Policy. She is also the Chief Psychologist and Director of Psychology Training at the Cambridge Health Alliance, an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and a Faculty Affiliate at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. In 2009, she received an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, where she was awarded a Public Services Fellowship. Leary’s research interests include (with Michael Wheeler) the role of first impressions in shaping initial dialogues and work on emotion and negotiation. Her published work addresses postmodern and relational perspectives in teaching, supervision and psychotherapy and racial and cultural issues in clinical settings. Her 1997 paper on race and self-disclosure won the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Karl Menninger Prize. She is the 2007 recipient of the Ernest and Gertrude Ticho Award of the American Psychoanalytic Association. In 2010, she received the American Psychological Association’s Division of Psychoanalysis award for clinical scholarship.