VirJinn

Psychiatrist at Yale Mental Health & Counseling and a candidate at Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. They received their BA from Yale University, MD from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and completed their psychiatry residency at Yale University. A former APA Division 39 Scholar and APsA Teachers’ Academy Fellow, they have presented on the mental health concerns of QTBIPOC for the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the Association of LGBTQ+ Psychiatrists. Their writing includes a chapter on gender and sexual identities in The Psychiatry Resident Handbook, Re/calibrating in ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action, and a forthcoming reflexive qualitative study exploring psychoanalyst perspectives on gender and sexuality in Psychoanalytic Inquiry.