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A New York City psychiatrist who shared her violent fantasy of being shot in the head during a lecture at Ivy Lea claims her horrific words have been taken out of context.
Dr. Aruna Khilanani, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Manhattan, told the New York Times on Saturday that she only intended to use “provocation as a tool for real engagement” while she said she dreamed of executing eggs.
“So much talk of sweat is a dry, gentle regurgitation of new words with no subconscious action,” Khilanani reportedly wrote in an email. “And if you want to infect your subconscious, you have to feel real negative emotions.”
Al-Khilani added that listeners and critics alike should not take her words literally – instead they can use them as a therapeutic tool.
“My metaphor of my anger was a way for people to think about negative feelings,” Al-Khilanani added. “To normalize negative feelings. Because if you don’t, it will turn into violent action.”
Khelanani, who received her New York State medical license in 2008, told The Times that her lecture was initially well received. Yale called for a video of the lecture to be posted in several TikTok videos while insisting to the newspaper that the college shouldn’t be surprised by its content.
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“They knew the topic, they knew the address, they knew the speaker,” Khelanani told The Times.
“There is something emotionally dangerous about opening up a conversation about race,” Khelanani wrote in an email. “No one wants to look at their actions or face their negative feelings about what they’re doing. The best way to control the narrative is to focus on me, make me the problem, which I mentioned happens in a racial dynamic.”
Khelanani, who did not respond to a request for comment from The Post on Monday, said she does not regret her choice of words.
And her email continued, “My work is important.” “And I support that. We need treatment in this country.”
Khelani was criticized online over the weekend for her April 6 remarks at the Child Study Center at Yale University School of Medicine, in which she revealed her dream of “emptying a gun in the head of any white person” who dared stand in her way.
During the lecture titled “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind,” Khelanani, who isn’t affiliated with Yale, said she cut most of her former white boyfriends five years ago, adding that “there weren’t any good apples there.”
Yale University School of Medicine said in a statement that several Ivy League faculty members “later expressed concern” about Shrink’s talk while saying his tone and content were “inconsistent” with its values.
Meanwhile, the medical school said, it decided to publish a video of Al-Khilani’s lecture with access restricted to those invited to speak while noting that it added a disclaimer to the footage.
“This video contains profanity and images of violence,” the disclaimer reads. “Yale Medical School expects members of our community to speak respectfully to one another and to avoid using profanity as a matter of professionalism and recognition of our common humanity. Yale University School of Medicine does not condone images of violence or racism against any group.”
A wave of criticism over the weekend for al-Khilani’s comments over the weekend included a Yale University professor who denounced her on Twitter, saying her words were “extremely disturbing and counterproductive.”
Dr. Nicholas Christakis, professor of social and natural sciences at Yale University, said Monday that Khelani’s “disturbing fantasies” weren’t even what bothered him.
“Most humans have disturbing fantasies, and this could be an appropriate topic for discussion,” Christakis wrote on Twitter. “People’s actions are more important than their thoughts or words.”
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But Christakis criticized the “pejorative generalizations” that al-Khilani used about people based on their race, calling them “unfounded” and disturbing.
“It’s her debating style, leaving aside sharing her fantasies, this is problematic and racist,” Christakis wrote on Twitter.
To read more from the New York Post, click here.
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