Her lecture was reportedly well-received at Yale, with one of the listeners, a Black woman, thanking her for giving “voice to us as people of color and what we go through all the time. Because if you don’t, it will turn into a violent action,” she said. “My speaking metaphorically about my own anger was a method for people to reflect on negative feelings. In an email last Saturday, Khilanani said her words were taken out of context to “control the narrative,” explaining her lecture “used provocation as a tool for real engagement. Khilanani describes herself as a forensic psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who specializes in treating race, gender, sex, artists, and whiteness. Other details: An audio copy of the lecture was posted online by journalist Katie Herzog on Substack and a subsequent interview where she spoke with Khilanani afterward. Aruna Khilanani, incited controversy last week when her remarks, delivered April 6 at Yales Child Study Center, gained attention online. Dr Aruna Khilanani, aa New York City-based psychiatrist who said during a Yale University panel discussion that she had fantasies of killing white people is now defending her comments after widespread backlash, the Daily Mail reports. She claims that dynamic is that people of colour are forced. Khilanani said talking to white people about the subject of race is “a waste of our breath,” adding, “We are asking a demented, violent predator who thinks that they are a saint or a superhero, to accept responsibility. The Hartford Courant reported that the psychiatrist, Dr Aruna Khilanani, discussed a 'psychological dynamic that is on PTSD repeat. Aruna Khilanani, a forensic psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with a private practice in New York and not affiliated with Yale, was invited to do a lecture on April 6 as part of the School of Medicine’s Grand Rounds, according to The New York Times.Ī flier for the online talk, titled “ The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind,” described its “learning objectives” as understanding “how white people are psychologically dependent on black rage,” National Review reported.Īt one point in the lecture, Khilanani described how she has fantasies of “unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step, like I did the world a f***ing favor.” Yale University placed restrictive access to the lecture recording of a guest psychiatrist after her controversial remarks about white people in an online talk.

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