The work before us: Whiteness and the psychoanalytic institute

Alexandra Woodsobtained her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the City College of NY, and is a graduate of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She has co-chaired its Committee on Ethnicity, Race, Class, Culture, and Language (CERCCL) since 2006. She is also a member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak, Inc. She has a certificate in the treatment of couples and families from the Family Institute of Westchester. She has taught doctoral courses in Diversity and Mental Health at the Doctoral Sub Program in Clinical Psychology, CUNY, where she has also supervised students since 2000. From 1991 to 2001, she was Assistant Chief Psychologist at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, NYC, NY, where she directed a program for dually diagnosed adolescents. She has been in full-time private practice since 2001 in New York City.