Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action

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 possible would seem to be the essence of psychoanalytically informed action." Eugene Mahon, "Playing for Real" ROOM 2.19

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. 

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, producing a third intersubjective space where imaginative compromise and policymaking are plausible. In theory, this collective act of restitution might eventually lead to a third narrative and a renewed democratic center in which the legitimacy of political opposition returns to the American body politic." - Michael A. Diamond, "The Fissure" ROOM 2.20New episodes will be released twice a month on Thursdays. Listen and Subscribe today!

Dr. Vamik Volkan, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, is celebrated for his insights on chosen traumas and peace-building. Joined by Molly Castelloe, they discuss their film, 'Blind Trust,' which explores leadership and followership during crises. They delve into the healing power of poetry for refugees, emphasizing personal stories in overcoming trauma. The conversation also covers ethnic conflict and identity, linking historical trauma to political challenges, and the transformative role of creativity in addressing mental health and racism among marginalized youth.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.