Couched
Episodes
Dismantling Structural Constraints: Challenging the "Punishment Bureaucracy” and Facism in Psychoanalysis
24 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this stirring conversation with Dr. Carter Carter and Alec Karakatsanis. Our guests peel back the curtain and inspire with a paradigm-shif...
Bringing the Unthought Asian-American Subject to Mind: Cultivating Concern and Care in the Socio-Clinical Space
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this illuminating conversation with Drs. Mary Kim Brewster, David Eng, and Shinhee Han. Our guests confront the dangerous myths of yellow ...
Reconfiguring Transitional Space: Queer Negativity, Trans Imaginaries, and Impossible Bodies
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this timely truth-telling conversation with multi-medium artist Kris Grey and author and psychoanalyst, Griffin Hansbury. Our guests crack...
Surviving Institutional Failures: Expanding the Psychoanalytic Canon
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this poetic and incisive conversation between Foluke Taylor and Jyoti Rao. Our guests explore the toxicity of institutional stasis and the...
Group Psychology: The Promise and Perils of Togetherness
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this inspiring conversation between Dr. Francisco Gonzalez and Dr. George Makari. Our guests explore the impact of group dynamics on both ...
Beyond Surveillance and Criminalization : Sex Work, Fetish, and Feminist Action as Care
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this eye-opening conversation between Yin Q and Dr. Katie Gentile. Our guests challenge common preconceptions about sex work, kink, and re...
Dismantling Anti-Black Logics: Creating Alternative forms of Knowledge and Storytelling
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a heartfelt conversation between psychoanalyst, Chanda D. Griffin and choreographers, Hilary Brown-Istrefi and Briana Brown-Tipley. Our gu...
Surviving Apocalyptic Catastrophes: Facing Reality and Imagining a Future of Care
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this incisive and rallying conversation between, Drs. Robert J. Lifton and Sally Weintrobe, as they discuss the obstacles to facing our ca...
“Something We Call Care”: Land, Community, and the Social Imaginary
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this lyrical yet sobering conversation between psychoanalyst, filmmaker, and professor, Dr. Ricardo (Rico) Ainslie and anthropologist, pro...
All Together Now: Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this profoundly moving conversation between colleagues and close friends, Dr. Judith Butler and Dr. Ken Corbett, as they engage with and r...
Decolonizing Psychoanalysis: Intersections of the Interior and Exterior
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this intimate and intellectual conversation between Dr. Gail Lewis and Dr. Lara Sheehi, both of whom are esteemed authors, activists, psyc...
Exposing Transphobic Legacies, Embracing Trans Life
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this riveting conversation between Dr. Jules Gill-Peterson, author and distinguished professor of transgender history and history of sexua...
Our Bodies, Our Lives: Protecting Reproductive Rights
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this hard-hitting conversation between Kathryn “Kitty” Kolbert, distinguished attorney who defended reproductive rights in the U.S. Su...
Transcending Binaries: Finding Freedom through Play
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this inspiring conversation between Ken Corbett, psychoanalyst and author, and Maggie Nelson, MacArthur Genius Award-winning writer, as th...
What’s Repaired in Reparations: A Conversation Among Psychoanalytic and Social Activists
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this vital conversation featuring psychologists, scholars, and community activists working to further efforts toward reparations in both t...
Remembering Winnicott: A Graphic Memoirist and a Psychoanalyst Discuss Creativity in Writing and Psychotherapy
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this inspiring conversation with Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow and award-winning graphic novelist Alison Bechdel and esteemed psychologi...
Facing Fossil Fuels' Effects: Psychoanalysts and Climate Activists Confront the Climate Crisis
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen in on this eye-opening conversation with internationally renowned author and climate activist, Bill McKibben, and esteemed psychologist, psycho...
Moving Conversations: What Can Psychoanalysts and Choreographers Learn from One Another?
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listen in on this enlivening conversation with internationally renowned choreographer, Bill T. Jones, and esteemed psychoanalyst, Professor of En...
Braving the U.S. Election
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listen in on this conversation with renowned psychohistorian, Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, and esteemed psychoanalyst/political commentator, Dr. Andrew Samu...
What’s Systemic about Racism?
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listen in on this enlightening conversation with internationally-renowned philosopher and professor, Dr. Judith Butler and esteemed critical social th...
Border Crisis: A Psychoanalyst and Filmmaker Confront Family Separation
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listen in to the inspiring conversation with psychologist/psychoanalyst, Dr. Spyros Orfanos, and award-winning documentary filmmaker, Ellen Goosenberg...
Adolescents Falling: What Grownups Don't See
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listen in to our continuing conversation with psychologist/psychoanalyst, Dr. Ken Corbett, andaward-winning literary fiction writer, Susan Choi. Our g...
Adolescent Outsider Stories
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Esteemed psychologist and psychoanalyst, Dr. Ken Corbett, and award-winning literary fiction writer, Susan Choi, in an exploration of each other’s w...
Listener Update: #PodcastBlackout
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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Restoring Reality: Part 2
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Esteemed activists Drs. Robert Jay Lifton and Stephen Soldz return to expand on their ideas from Part 1 in order to map the undercurrents of the ongoi...
Restoring Reality
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Renowned activists, Drs. Robert J. Lifton and Stephen Soldz, share the wisdom that they have gained while fighting to expose malignancy in political a...
Welcome to Couched!
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listen in on revealing conversations between psychoanalysts and public figures about social issues facing the world today. Co-hosts, Dr. Billie Pivnic...