RU196: MOLLY MERSON & LARA SHEEHI ON COUNTERSPACE, SYSTEMIC VIOLENCE, RACISM, SEXISM, ABLEISM

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Molly Merson and Lara Sheehi back to the podcast! Molly Merson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a BART- accessible practice in Berkeley, CA. They have an MA in Social Clinical Psychology from New College of California, a degree that placed an emphasis on the ways in which constructs of race, power, gender, socio-economics, and sociopolitical environments impact individual and community identity, well-being, and health. They are a candidate in psychoanalysis at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. www.mollymerson.com Dr. Lara Sheehi is a psychologist, psychoanalytic practitioner, scholar, activist, and President-elect of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association: www.apadivisions.org/division-39/news-events Her new book Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge 2021). https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-Under-Occupation-Practicing-Resistance-in-Palestine/Sheehi-Sheehi/p/book/9781138596207 On Tuesday May 10, Molly will be presenting at Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society: Counterspace event series – Psychoanalysis, Bodies and Diet Culture. Please join us for the first event in a series that showcases some of the publications in the Counterspace section of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. The authors will present papers based on their articles and will then engage in further dialogue with each other and the attendees. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/psychoanalysis-bodies-and-diet-culture-tickets-304576274837?aff=erelexpmlt 12.30 (noon) US West Coast 3.30pm US East Coast 9.30pm South Africa 8.30pm UK 11 May: 7.30am New Zealand Free and open to everyone This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/7LWx1UDJMno You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated! Rendering Unconscious the book available from Trapart: https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 For links to everything visit: www.renderingunconscious.org http://www.drvanessasinclair.net Follow me at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/home Sign up for my newsletter: http://www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ The song at the end of the episode is "Transition: Portal (Lunar eclipse in Gemini)" by Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson from the album The pathways of the Heart (For Jess): https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for providing the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Photo: Art by Vanessa Sinclair Original artwork available from Trapart Editions: https://store.trapart.net/item/4 and TrapartUniqueWorks at Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TrapartUniqueWorks