Rachel Kabasakalian-McKay, Ph.D.
Rachel Kabasakalian-McKay, Ph.D., Ed.M. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, and co- editor, with David Mark, of Inhabiting Implication in Racial Oppression and in Relational Psychoanalysis (2023, Routledge). She is on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and of the Mitchell Relational Studies Center, and is a founding board member, Co-Director emerita, and faculty of the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia. Additionally, she teaches and supervises at NIP and ICP-NY. She has written on implication; empathy and recognition; the expansion of maternal subjectivity and thus enriched potential space made possible by Jessica Benjamin's theory; and, with David Mark, the importance of the "intersubjective real". She is in practice in Philadelphia and New York, and serves as an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
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