Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action
Episodes
What Hatred Helps Us Face with Anastasios Gaitanidis
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Dr. Anastasios Gaitanidis, a relational psychoanalyst based in London, whose work focuses on the intersection of...
Power, Agency, and Gun Violence with Irwin Kula
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Irwin Kula, a seventh-generation rabbi and President Emeritus of Clal–The National Jewish Center for Learning ...
Reframing Discovery with JT Mikulka
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with JT Mikulka, an analyst and social worker whose work in ROOM unpacked tensions at the 54th annual IPA conference ...
Writing for Resilience with Sara Taber
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Sara Taber, author, social worker, psychologist, educator, and daughter of a CIA operative. For the past five ye...
Gaming, Analysis, and Identity in the Age of AI with Xiaomeng Qiao
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Xiaomeng Qiao, an analyst-in-training, writer, and game developer. Qiao examines the potential and the limitatio...
The Weight of Silence with Kissu Taffere
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Kissu Taffere, a licensed clinical social worker whose clinical focus centers on women in BIPOC and immigrant co...
Encountering Bravery with Lord John Alderdice
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At ROOM's fifth annual Gala held this past summer, we honored Lord John Alderdice with the Coline Covington Award for his courage in facing divis...
Authentic Activism with Ipek S. Burnett
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Dr. Ipek S. Burnett, author, cultural critic, and co-chair of the Human Rights Watch's Executive Committee....
A Binding Legacy with Rina Lazar
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Dr. Rina Lazar, a clinical psychologist practicing in Tel Aviv who brings an anti-war perspective to current eve...
Too Radical, Not Radical Enough with Max Beshers
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac talk with licensed clinical social worker Max Beshers. Beshers applies analytic thinking in spaces ranging from private pra...
Fascism's Erotic Lure with Sue Grand
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Sue Grand, faculty and supervisor at the NYU postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Grand dis...
Living Histories with Mary B. McRae
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Mary B. McRae, who describes her experience growing up in a segregated southern Black community, migrating to NY...
Wrestling Faith with Katie Burner
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Katie Burner, a therapist raised inside the Latter-day Saints faith. Burner unpacks how her Mormon upbringing an...
Minding the Gap in Democracy and Psychoanalysis with Jill Gentile
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Isaac and Aneta speak with Jill Gentile about how the liberatory and inclusive projects of democracy and psychoanalysis reflect and enable ...
Taking Considered Action with Robert Frey
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Dr. Robert Frey about his work in international medicine and his direct action against the use of nuclear equipm...
Facing Complicity with Michael Krass
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, hosts Aneta Stojnić and Isaac Slone speak with Michael Krass, a psychoanalyst and the president of the Contemporary Freudian Society. Kras...
How Activism Speaks with Jyoti Rao
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, hosts Aneta Stojnić and Isaac Slone speak with psychoanalyst Jyoti Rao on her view of social justice activism as an interpretation of soci...
Architecture of Remembrance with Tom Hennes
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, hosts Aneta Stojnić and Isaac Slone speak with Tom Hennes, founder of Thinc Design. Hennes discusses his apprehension around the phrase &q...
Acting when Politicians Fail Us with Dean Hammer
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we had the pleasure of talking with Dr. Dean Hammer, a consummate Activist-Practitioner who refutes silence in the face of malignant normal...
Hearing Untold Stories with Alberto Minujin
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In our conversation with Alberto Minujin, we learn about his work enfranchising the agency and identity of Latinx women in Queens. Minujin unpacks the...
Violence as Societal Disorder with Dr. Bandy X. Lee
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Me...
Forgetting and the Demise of Democracy with Jill Salberg
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Dr. Jill Salberg about the relationship between memory and fascism in American history. Dr. Salberg connects the...
Cultural Reverberations of Psychoanalysis with Fang Duan
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Dr. Fang Duan as she dissects the differing applications of psychoanalysis in the Chinese and English-speaking w...
How Psychoanalysis Shaped my Poetry with Nancy Kuhl
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with poet Nancy Kuhl as she discusses the relationship between her practices in language and her work with psychoanal...
On the Streets with Zak Mucha
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Zak Mucha about his experience working as a supervisor with an Assertive Community Treatment Program (ACT), prov...
Minding What Matters with Betty Teng
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Shaping Political Thought with Daniel Benveniste
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. Connect...
Dragging Psychoanalysis with Eric Shorey
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac talk with Eric Shorey about his experience as a queer person, performance art organizer, and psychoanalyst. Shorey unveils ...
Community-Made with Destiney Kirby
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 interaction...
Braving Authenticity with Murad Khan
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 psych...
The Courage to Speak with Shegofa Shahbaz
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac talk with Shegofa Shahbaz, a writer, organizer, and college student whose piece in ROOM, "Letter to the United Nations...
Marrying Image and Word with Francesca Schwartz
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 sur...
Defending Mental Health From Industry with Linda Michaels and Janice Muhr
08 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac talk with Linda Michaels and Janice Muhr, the co-founders of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN), about their advocacy...
Interrupting Hierarchies of Beauty with Deborah Dancy
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with artist Deborah Dancy about her art's unconscious relationship with psychoanalysis and its conscious relation...
Anarchic Care in the Anthropocene with Ryan LaMothe
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Aneta and Isaac talk with Ryan LaMothe about psychoanalysis and care in the age of the Anthropocene. LaMothe dissects the false binary betw...
Sharing a Meal with Roa Harb
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Queering Therapeutic Action with Keiko Lane
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Speaking the Unthinkable with Joseph Cancelmo
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with Joseph Cancelmo about the after-effects of collective trauma and the numbing worlds of "new normals." C...
Writing it Down with Kerry L. Malawista
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with Dr. Kerry Malawista about the healing power of writing and psychoanalysis. Dr. Malawista illuminates the social a...
Giving Shape to Strange Things with Eugene Mahon
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 psychoanal...
Engaging Reality with Isaac Tylim
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Where Self and Body Politic Meet with Michael A. Diamond
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with Dr. Michael A. Diamond about how to radically reshape organizations by embracing contradictions, using history to...
Uncollapsing Time with Vamik Volkan and Molly Castelloe
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
Making the Political Personal with Lara Sheehi
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with Lara Sheehi about living in a state of suspended grief, bringing a decolonial, revolutionary, liberatory perspect...
Ruptures in Identity and Ideology with Coline Covington
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with Coline Covington about how shifts in ideology affect us, how we struggle to maintain personal and group identitie...
Stepping into the Line of Fire with Adrienne Harris
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with Dr. Adrienne Harris about her timely piece, "My Back-Alley Abortion." They discuss Harris's person...
Changing Dominant Narratives with Scott Graybow
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with Dr. Scott Graybow about the status of psychoanalysis in mental health education, mainstream narratives in mental ...
Reflections on Moving West with Phyllis Beren and Natasha Kurchanova
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with psychoanalysts Phyllis Beren and Natasha Kurchanova about their experiences immigrating to the United States from...
Culture and the Unconscious with Karim Dajani
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Psychoanalyst Karim Dajani deepens the discussion he began in his essays from ROOM, “The Culturing of Psychoanalysis” and “From Beirut to San Fr...
Introducing ROOM's Podcast with Hattie Myers
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
ROOM’s editor-in-chief Hattie Myers joins us on the premiere episode to discuss the evolution of ROOM as a transdisciplinary platform intersecting p...