Grounded in the Wonder of the Ordinariness of Trauma: Expanding and Recentering Psychoanalysis

Faculty and past co-chair of the Ethnicity, Race, Culture, Class, and Language Committee at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she completed her psychoanalytic training. She is also a faculty member at Adelphi University; the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies/New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis; The Stephen Mitchell Center for relational Studies; and is also a Fellow, Supervisor and training Analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR). She has also taught courses at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York City. Dr Jones is a founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak, Inc. Dr. Jones is a graduate of the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Her research interests include the study of classical psychoanalytic texts to explore the origin of constructs related to the unconscious; the intrapsychic lives of black American men and women; the economics of racialized internal processes, particularly the racialized third in sociopolitical encounters and the clinical writings of Fanon. Currently, she is working on a fictionalized history of her paternal grandmother who was born into and later freed from chattel slavery in the United States.