Carlos Padrón is a licensed psychoanalyst from the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in NYC. He has an MA In Philosophy from the New School and an MPhil In Latin American Literature from NYU.

He has written and presented on the relations between philosophy, the political, and psychoanalysis, on community psychoanalysis, and on clinical issues related to difference. He has work published in Division Review; Psychoanalytic Psychology; Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy; Room: A Sketchbook for Psychoanalytic Action; Stillpoint Magazine, Trópicos (journal of the Psychoanalytic Society of Caracas), Out Art (a magazine of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association), Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious (Routledge), Children in the Line of Fire (soon to come in Routledge), Psychoanalytic Dialogues, among others.  

Carlos is currently a faculty member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research where he teaches a class on clinical aspects of diversity. He has also been a faculty member at the Contemporary Freudian Society, the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance, the Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis, and the Silberman School of Social Work.  

Carlos has worked psychoanalytically in different settings and is currently a clinical associate of the New School Psychotherapy Program where he supervises PhD students in psychology.