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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...