Commentary on Lauren Levine’s “Interrogating Race, Shame and Mutual Vulnerability”

Kirkland C. Vaughans, Ph.D., is a training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and the Harlem Family Institute. He is Adjunct Professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Mitchell Relational Study Center, and the Derner School of Psychology. He is Clinical Director of the Derner Hempstead Child Clinic and founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak. He serves on the boards of the Holmes Commission of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the International Psychotherapy Institute, and the New York Center for Community Psychoanalysis. He is Founding Editor of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy and on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalytic Psychology, and the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. Vaughans’s publications focus on generational trauma, race, and the school -to- prison pipeline; he is co-editor of the Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents.
CONTACT Kirkland C. Vaughans, Ph.D. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, 11530