A Conversation with the Holmes Commission Leadership Team: About the Experience of Leading American Psychoanalysis Toward Racial Equity

Teaching, Training, and Supervising Analyst in the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas, Professor and Psy.D. Program Director Emerita at the George Washington University, and Teaching, Training and Supervising Analyst Emerita at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Holmes is widely published on the psychoanalytic understanding of race, class, and gender, has served on the editorial boards of the IJP and JAPA, is a recipient of the JAPA Prize (2021) and the Sigourney Award (2022), and she was the eponymous chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis (2020-2024). Dr. Holmes lives in Bluffton, SC where she practices psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

Training and Supervising Analyst and on the Faculty of the William Alanson White Institute in New York City. He supervises at the Derner Institute of Adelphi University. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalytic Psychology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He teaches in the Department of Psychology at Mt. Sinai Hospital, at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute, and at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies National Program, the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia. He serves as Chair of the Diversities Section of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Department of Psychoanalytic Education. He is in full-time private practice of psychoanalysis, individual, family and couple therapy, psychotherapy supervision and consultation, and organizational consultation, in New York City.

Training and Supervising Analyst, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; Training and Supervising Analyst, Institute for Psychoanalytic Education affiliated with NYU School of Medicine; Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Assistant Attending Psychiatrist, New York–Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College.

Training and Supervising Analyst, Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute; Child and Adolescent Supervising Analyst, New York Psychoanalytic Institute; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine; Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Morehouse School of Medicine. A child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Dr. Stoute is internationally recognized for transforming psychoanalytic and developmental perspectives on race awareness, diversity in psychiatric and psychoanalytic education, and organizational leadership on topics related to children’s and adolescents’ health and neurodiversity. Dr. Stoute addresses implicit bias in healthcare in her work as an organizational consultant, leadership advisor, scholar, clinician, and educator. She is in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia.

Board-Certified clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst. As Associate Head of the Department of Psychoanalytic Education (DPE) of American Psychoanalytic Association (APSA), she is Founder/member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak, received the Public Leadership Credential (PLC) from Harvard University, J. F. Kennedy School. She is NA Region Representative of IPA, The Community and the World Committee: Prejudice, Discrimination & Racism. Dr. Kliger founded PsychAssets and Kliger Consulting Group nearly 40 years ago, engaging also in institute and university teaching. Her clinical and organizational practices extend to children and families, to community outreach initiatives, to organizational consultations to C-Suite leadership in multi-national contexts, and nonprofit organizations/communities. As an award winning writer and visual artist, she creates group and organizational self-study/group reflective experiential practices for transformational change, in crisis, disaster, and trauma recovery. Dr. Kliger is recognized for her research and as producer of the docu-educational film: “We Are Human First.” She earned the 2020 Hermes International Creative Gold Award for her podcast.