Presenter

Dr. Jones is a clinical psychologist at the NY Harbor Department of Veterans Affairs Community Living Center, and a psychoanalyst in private practice in Queens, New York. Dr. Jones is faculty and 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 Stephen Mitchell Center for relational Studies; and  is a Fellow and training Analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR).  She has 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 texts on 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. She has presented papers at the Freud Museum and several other venues.