Meditations on Psychoanalysis, Race, and the Divided Self

Psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. He received the PhD degree in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and he is a graduate of the training program in psychoanalysis at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP). Jenkins is a professor emeritus of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and is a published poet and novelist. He is or has been a supervisor or faculty member at NPAP, the Blanton-Peale Institute, and the Harlem Family Institute. In November 2015, Jenkins was one of the keynote speakers at the annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). His presentation dealt with the internalized effects of intrusive and demeaning experience in the lives of African Americans.