Best ROOM A Sketchbook For Analytic Action Podcasts (2024)

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Acting when Politicians Fail Us with Dean Hammer 38:01

7d ago38:01

38:01

This week, we had the pleasure of talking with Dr. Dean Hammer, a consummate Activist-Practitioner who refutes silence in the face of malignant normality. Hammer explains the pull of quiet compliance, especially during times of atrocity. We spoke with him about where his work in the classroom, the protest, and the clinical setting overlap. Dr. Hamm…

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Hearing Untold Stories with Alberto Minujin 36:39

1M ago36:39

36:39

In our conversation with Alberto Minujin, we learn about his work enfranchising the agency and identity of Latinx women in Queens. Minujin unpacks the mutual excitement and hesitancy of the participants' speech. These two emotions highlight the need for these women to acquire a caring, available, and action-taking audience for their words. Thank yo…

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Violence as Societal Disorder with Dr. Bandy X. Lee 40:20

2M ago40:20

40:20

This week we speak with Dr. Bandy X. Lee, editor of the best selling book "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" and president of the World Mental Health Coalition, about her life-long work studying, predicting, and preventing violence. As a clinician and academic Dr Lee felt called to action when, after the 2016 election, the US society was faced wi…

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Forgetting and the Demise of Democracy with Jill Salberg 32:44

2M ago32:44

32:44

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Dr. Jill Salberg about the relationship between memory and fascism in American history. Dr. Salberg connects the memory loss caused by trauma in an individual with the political amnesia that allows fascism to occur (and recur) in a nation. Unpacking the dangerous complicity of passivity, Dr. Salberg shows us ho…

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Cultural Reverberations of Psychoanalysis with Fang Duan 39:18

3M ago39:18

39:18

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Dr. Fang Duan as she dissects the differing applications of psychoanalysis in the Chinese and English-speaking worlds. Fang details her own journey from China to Canada, discussing the gulf between the concept of the individual in the East and West. Across cultures, Duan unveils the agency that psychoanalysis a…

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How Psychoanalysis Shaped my Poetry with Nancy Kuhl 37:31

4M ago37:31

37:31

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with poet Nancy Kuhl as she discusses the relationship between her practices in language and her work with psychoanalysis. Kuhl details how the tangle of metaphor in poetry can supply rich ground for examining the conscious and unconscious at work in our minds. In her latest book, On Hysteria, Kuhl responds to Freud…

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On the Streets with Zak Mucha 38:47

4M ago38:47

38:47

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Zak Mucha about his experience working as a supervisor with an Assertive Community Treatment Program (ACT), providing 24/7 care to patients struggling with psychosis, and his own journey discovering psychoanalysis. Mucha unveils how psychoanalysis and poetry share so much commonality in their practices, approac…

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Minding What Matters with Betty Teng 37:31

5M ago37:31

37:31

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Betty Teng about her new book Mind of State, the dangerous cultural amnesia of nations enmeshed in cyclical war and climate denial, and the transformative potential of choosing to remember. Teng emphasizes the vital necessity of reckoning with trauma collectively, not just personally, as we face an election cyc…

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Shaping Political Thought with Daniel Benveniste 44:40

6M ago44:40

44:40

This week, Aneta and Isaac talk with Dr. Daniel Benveniste about his time in the US and abroad, contending with the rise of totalitarian rule. Connecting his experience living in Venezuela with Donald Trump's two presidential campaigns in America, Benveniste analyzes how psychology shapes history and vice-versa. Benveniste reveals where and how dia…

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Dragging Psychoanalysis with Eric Shorey 40:34

6M ago40:34

40:34

This week, Aneta and Isaac talk with Eric Shorey about his experience as a queer person, performance art organizer, and psychoanalyst. Shorey unveils his disappointment with the analytic community's inability to engage with queer performances and queer patients with the depth and humanity they hold for others. Shorey expounds on how queer people wi…

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Community-Made with Destiney Kirby 35:02

9M ago35:02

35:02

This week, Aneta and Isaac talk with Destiney Kirby about her relationship with her hair as a Black woman in the internet-age, her complex interactions with her white mother, and the difference between independence and isolation in crafting the self. Kirby details a mosaic of family and societal pressures that contributed to her access to hair care…

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Braving Authenticity with Murad Khan 48:46

10M ago48:46

48:46

This week, Aneta and Isaac talk with Dr. Murad Khan about their experience with authority, queerness, America, and how to speak to power. In the psychoanalytic field, the home, and in work, Khan shows how inculcation into power structures hinders intuitive access to justice. From their own experience, they detail how tone-policing while critiquing …

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The Courage to Speak with Shegofa Shahbaz 25:23

10M ago25:23

25:23

This week, Aneta and Isaac talk with Shegofa Shahbaz, a writer, organizer, and college student whose piece in ROOM, "Letter to the United Nations" reached its addressee and the attention of the president. Shegofa discusses her life before and after the return of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, the danger and necessity of speaking up, and how accessibl…

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Marrying Image and Word with Francesca Schwartz 33:48

10M ago33:48

33:48

This week, Aneta and Isaac talk with ROOM's art editor Francesca Schwartz about how the meeting of image and text in ROOM capture elements of surprise, reverie, confusion, and deep feeling. Schwartz shares the unique process of art curation in ROOM and its connection to her work as an analyst and artist. "I like some materials for their precision, …

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Defending Mental Health From Industry with Linda Michaels and Janice Muhr 39:52

1y ago39:52

39:52

This week, Aneta and Isaac talk with Linda Michaels and Janice Muhr, the co-founders of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN), about their advocacy against corporations who co-opt mental health as an industry for greed. From the clinical to the communal, Michaels and Muhr detail how their therapies of depth, insight, and relationship call them o…

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Interrupting Hierarchies of Beauty with Deborah Dancy 40:47

1y ago40:47

40:47

This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with artist Deborah Dancy about her art's unconscious relationship with psychoanalysis and its conscious relationship with the political. Dancy discusses how her artistic process embraces deeply-intentional research on her ancestry while holding room for the accidental to impact her expression. "My work is an investi…

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Anarchic Care in the Anthropocene with Ryan LaMothe 31:12

1y ago31:12

31:12

This week, Aneta and Isaac talk with Ryan LaMothe about psychoanalysis and care in the age of the Anthropocene. LaMothe dissects the false binary between hope and despair and introduces Anarchic Care as a radical new form of psychoanalytic engagement. In the face of climate change, LaMothe details the need for analysts to take their work beyond the…

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Sharing a Meal with Roa Harb 30:30

1y ago30:30

30:30

This week, Aneta and Isaac talk with Roa Harb about food as a measurement of both distance and intimacy. Dr. Harb discusses how, through writing, she discovered that shared meals with her family in Lebanon were expressions of tenderness and suffocating control. Dr. Harb's work unmasks the role of the unconscious in memory, revulsion within desire, …

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Queering Therapeutic Action with Keiko Lane 39:58

1+ y ago39:58

39:58

This week, Aneta and Isaac talk with Keiko Lane about the intersections of queer survival, the social valence of disease, and what it means to embody the earned rage, sorrow, and hope in a complex psychological world. Coming to clinical practice after years of political organizing and advocacy, Lane illuminates how care creates the proximities esse…

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Speaking the Unthinkable with Joseph Cancelmo 40:34

1+ y ago40:34

40:34

This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with Joseph Cancelmo about the after-effects of collective trauma and the numbing worlds of "new normals." Cancelmo dissects both the contemporary dissociations found in working and living "remotely," as well as the productive identifications we can find within narrative, even, (and perhaps especially) within fiction…

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Writing it Down with Kerry L. Malawista 32:11

1+ y ago32:11

32:11

This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with Dr. Kerry Malawista about the healing power of writing and psychoanalysis. Dr. Malawista illuminates the social and political impact of The Things They Carry Project, a series of writing workshops she developed during the COVID-19 pandemic to help participants process trauma and promote resilience through writin…

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Giving Shape to Strange Things with Eugene Mahon 35:08

1+ y ago35:08

35:08

This week, Aneta and Isaac talk with Dr. Eugene Mahon about the magic of metaphors in action, play as a point of entry, and the place where psychoanalysis and poetry meet. "Serious daring surely comes from serious thought, which brings us back to psychoanalytic thinking and its multiple determinants. To arrive at serious daring as quickly as possib…

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Engaging Reality with Isaac Tylim 33:50

1+ y ago33:50

33:50

This week, Isaac and Aneta speak with Dr. Isaac Tylim about the political refuge psychoanalysis offers in Argentina and the U.S. and the collapse of the psychoanalytic 'fourth wall.' Tylim deciphers the demands of external and internal realities in the clinical setting and illuminates how writing can be a form of mourning.…

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Where Self and Body Politic Meet with Michael A. Diamond 40:20

1+ y ago40:20

40:20

This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with Dr. Michael A. Diamond about how to radically reshape organizations by embracing contradictions, using history to challenge narrative structures, and recognizing transferential experiences that exist between members and leaders. "Reparative politics refers to the holding of tensions between opposing parties, pro…

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Uncollapsing Time with Vamik Volkan and Molly Castelloe 33:52

1+ y ago33:52

33:52

This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with Dr. Vamik Volkan and Dr. Molly Castelloe about their film, Blind Trust: Leaders and Followers in Times of Crisis, Dr. Volkan’s groundbreaking ideas about chosen traumas and chosen glories, and the healing power of poetry.

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Making the Political Personal with Lara Sheehi 42:28

1+ y ago42:28

42:28

This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with Lara Sheehi about living in a state of suspended grief, bringing a decolonial, revolutionary, liberatory perspective to psychoanalytic work, emigrating to the United States, and more.

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Ruptures in Identity and Ideology with Coline Covington 34:21

1+ y ago34:21

34:21

This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with Coline Covington about how shifts in ideology affect us, how we struggle to maintain personal and group identities, how political events relate to our basic attachments, and more.By ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action

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Stepping into the Line of Fire with Adrienne Harris 35:10

1+ y ago35:10

35:10

This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with Dr. Adrienne Harris about her timely piece, "My Back-Alley Abortion." They discuss Harris's personal experience, the implications of overturning Roe v. Wade, and what it means to step into the line of fire as a politically engaged clinician.

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Changing Dominant Narratives with Scott Graybow 37:41

2y ago37:41

37:41

This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with Dr. Scott Graybow about the status of psychoanalysis in mental health education, mainstream narratives in mental healthcare, evidence-based therapy (EBT), and the importance of helping people think for themselves.By ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action

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Reflections on Moving West with Phyllis Beren and Natasha Kurchanova 32:58

2y ago32:58

32:58

This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with psychoanalysts Phyllis Beren and Natasha Kurchanova about their experiences immigrating to the United States from the Soviet Union at different historic periods, finding a home in psychoanalysis, what it means to write autobiographically as analysts, and more.

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Culture and the Unconscious with Karim Dajani 33:47

2y ago33:47

33:47

Psychoanalyst Karim Dajani deepens the discussion he began in his essays from ROOM, “The Culturing of Psychoanalysis” and “From Beirut to San Francisco” as he speaks with Isaac and Aneta about the societal and political implications he has experienced in the rapidly changing field of psychoanalysis.By ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action

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Introducing ROOM's Podcast with Hattie Myers 27:22

2y ago27:22

27:22

ROOM’s editor-in-chief Hattie Myers joins us on the premiere episode to discuss the evolution of ROOM as a transdisciplinary platform intersecting psychoanalysis, art, literature, and politics.

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Acting when Politicians Fail Us with Dean Hammer 38:01

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Hearing Untold Stories with Alberto Minujin 36:39

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Violence as Societal Disorder with Dr. Bandy X. Lee 40:20

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Forgetting and the Demise of Democracy with Jill Salberg 32:44

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Cultural Reverberations of Psychoanalysis with Fang Duan 39:18

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How Psychoanalysis Shaped my Poetry with Nancy Kuhl 37:31

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On the Streets with Zak Mucha 38:47

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Minding What Matters with Betty Teng 37:31

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Shaping Political Thought with Daniel Benveniste 44:40

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Dragging Psychoanalysis with Eric Shorey 40:34

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Community-Made with Destiney Kirby 35:02

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Braving Authenticity with Murad Khan 48:46

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The Courage to Speak with Shegofa Shahbaz 25:23

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Marrying Image and Word with Francesca Schwartz 33:48

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Defending Mental Health From Industry with Linda Michaels and Janice Muhr 39:52

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Interrupting Hierarchies of Beauty with Deborah Dancy 40:47

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Anarchic Care in the Anthropocene with Ryan LaMothe 31:12

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Sharing a Meal with Roa Harb 30:30

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Queering Therapeutic Action with Keiko Lane 39:58

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Speaking the Unthinkable with Joseph Cancelmo 40:34

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Writing it Down with Kerry L. Malawista 32:11

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Giving Shape to Strange Things with Eugene Mahon 35:08

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Engaging Reality with Isaac Tylim 33:50

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Where Self and Body Politic Meet with Michael A. Diamond 40:20

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Uncollapsing Time with Vamik Volkan and Molly Castelloe 33:52

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Making the Political Personal with Lara Sheehi 42:28

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Ruptures in Identity and Ideology with Coline Covington 34:21

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Stepping into the Line of Fire with Adrienne Harris 35:10

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Changing Dominant Narratives with Scott Graybow 37:41

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Reflections on Moving West with Phyllis Beren and Natasha Kurchanova 32:58

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Culture and the Unconscious with Karim Dajani 33:47

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Introducing ROOM's Podcast with Hattie Myers 27:22

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