New York, June 10 : Dr. Aruna Khilanani, an Indian American psychiatrist based in New York, has defended her comments about having a fantasy of shooting white people, claiming her words were taken out of context. Dr. Khilanani shared her fantasy about shooting white people in the head during a lecture, titled â€œThe Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind, at Yale University, according to a New York Post report. Khilanani has reportedly said that she only meant to use â€œprovocation as a tool for real engagementâ€ while saying she dreamed of executing white people.

â€œToo much of the discourse on race is a dry, bland regurgitation of new vocabulary words with no work in the unconscious,â€ Khilanani reportedly wrote in an email to the Times. â€œAnd, if you want to hit the unconscious, you will have to feel real negative feelings.â€ Khilanani said that listeners and critics alike should not have taken her words literally â€” and could instead use them as a therapeutic tool, reports said.

India American psychiatrist in trouble after Yale speech