We refused most emphatically to turn a patient who puts himself into our hands in search of help into our private property, to decide his fate for him, to force our own ideals upon him, and with the pride of a Creator to form him in our own image and see that it is good.
Sigmund Freud
On April 6, 2021, Dr. Aruna Khilanani, a psychoanalyst, addressed a group of mental health experts at the Yale School of Medicine’s Child Study Center. The invited speaker titled her talk “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind” and delivered her remarks from New York City via Zoom. As she settled into her presentation, Khilanani told an audience of psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers about her murderous impulses. “I had 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 fucking favor.” Talking with white people, she said, was a “waste of our breath. We are asking a demented, violent predator who thinks that they are a saint or a superhero to accept responsibility.”