Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action
ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action is an award-winning interdisciplinary magazine conceived as an agent of community building and transformation. We are thrilled to launch Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action. On this podcast, writers, poets, activists, artists, and analysts who have contributed to ROOM converse about their work and the complex problems our world faces. The podcast is co-hosted by psychoanalytic candidates Isaac Slone and Aneta Stojnić and furthers ROOM’s mission to highlight psychoanalysis as an important lens for social discourse.
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Dec 1, 2022 • 34min
Ruptures in Identity and Ideology with Coline Covington
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.
Nov 17, 2022 • 35min
Stepping into the Line of Fire with Adrienne Harris
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.
Nov 3, 2022 • 38min
Changing Dominant Narratives with Scott Graybow
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.
Oct 20, 2022 • 33min
Reflections on Moving West with Phyllis Beren and Natasha Kurchanova
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.
Oct 6, 2022 • 34min
Culture and the Unconscious with Karim Dajani
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.
Sep 21, 2022 • 27min
Introducing ROOM's Podcast with Hattie Myers
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.
