DISPATCHES 6.19: ROOM ROUNDTABLE
This special edition of Room 6.19 Roundtable will be held in London on July 26 at the International Psychoanalytic Association Conference.
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THE CULTURING OF PSYCHOANALYSIS by Karim G. Dajani
From my very first contact with psychoanalysis, a fascination in the theory and practice took hold of me. But becoming a psychoanalyst was a bit unimaginable. How would a lower-middle-class Palestinian immigrant navigate such a life goal? How could I…
PRESIDENTIAL STATES OF MIND by Frank Putnam
In addition to the political controversies that they ignite, the contents of presidential tweets are subject to diverse statistical analyses as evidenced by postings on the internet.
FRIENDLESS IN PALM BEACH by Sheldon Bach
Two years ago, an article in the New York Times1 about Donald Trump’s “friends” made me want to collect the little we know about such friendships, some or all of which may apply to Trump himself.
A FAMILY ROMANCE by Jeri Isaacson
In mythology, in fairy tales, and in psychoanalysis, losing one’s sight often indicates that a disaster has occurred, an event so unbearable that it is no longer possible to look at it. Yet in the ongoing scourge that is the…
CLYTEMNESTRA by Sara Mansfield Taber
Sara Mansfield Taber is the author of Born Under an Assumed Name: The Memoir of a Cold War Spy’s Daughter, the writer’s guide Chance Particulars: A Writer’s Field Notebook, and two books of literary journalism. Her poetry, essays, travel, and…
VAGINAL VERITAS by Jill Gentile
In a recent interview1, Adam Phillips ventured the hypothesis that psychoanalysis was invented to address the problem of misogyny. This was a bold and unusual statement, and though we’ve long been initiated into Phillips’s refreshing, even scandalous, takes on often…
THE BACCHAE: THE FEMINIZATION OF VIOLENCE by Gala Garrido
From time immemorial, there have been crimes committed by women who were driven to pursue their own power. These transgressive crimes center on the tearing down of established systems. They make it possible for us to reflect upon the meaning…
#USTOO, SIGMUND by Elizabeth Cutter Evert
I am writing in the spirit of #MeToo to bear witness to damage that has been done to a subset of women I have known personally in my thirty years of practice as a psychoanalyst, who felt pressured by the…
CITY OF WOMEN by Francesca Schwartz
City of Women is an encounter with the confusion about what happens to a woman’s body over her lifetime. We become divided subjects from the beginning — separated from the womb and ourselves in birth. Then the divided mind, now…
HOMAGE TO FRANK O’HARA: FIRE ISLAND TEA DANCE, SUMMER ’78 by Kate Daniels
Kate Daniels is the Edwin Mims Professor of English and director of creative writing at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including In the Months of My Son’s Recovery (May 2019).
THE FEMINIST FUTURE IS NONBINARY by Catherine Baker-Pitts
I’m taken aback when Gloria Steinem, the “face of feminism,” announces on the Today show that she’s had “a little fat removed from above my eyes so I didn’t look like Mao Zedong.” Steinem is referring to the puffy-faced Chinese…
A LESBIAN LEANS IN by Ellen Marakowitz
At the 2019 Oscars, Period. End of Sentence won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short. The film, about fighting stigma against menstruation in rural India, marked the first time a film about menstruation made it to the Oscars stage.
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE ART: GO FIGURE! by Aneta Stojnić
Currently trauma is defined less in terms of the personal (the individual) and more in terms of the collective (the social-political) with its potentially insidious soul-destroying qualities. This is Maria Root’s concept of everyday or “insidious trauma.” Root here is…
REVISITING A DREAM by Joan Golden-Alexis
Currently trauma is defined less in terms of the personal (the individual) and more in terms of the collective (the social-political) with its potentially insidious soul-destroying qualities. This is Maria Root’s concept of everyday or “insidious trauma.” Root here is…
A MAN WHO HATES WOMEN by Raquel Berman
As a psychoanalyst practicing in Mexico City, I have been thinking, writing and researching for decades about the unfathomable phenomenon of feminicide. The cultural, sociological, political, and economic complexities that have contributed to the killing of women are, I believe,…
ENOUGH OF FALSE HEROES by José Vívenes
José Vívenes is a Venezuela-based painter. His work reconsiders the gaze given to collective references. Vívenes assumes painting as a means of communication to reflect on the complex circumstances that his country, Venezuela, is going through.
VENEZUELA: A PSYCHOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE by Mireya Lozada
My country has sunk into a complex humanitarian crisis led by a corrupt autocracy. From the laments of the millions of migrants who comprise the Venezuelan exodus around the world, to country-wide demands for food, medicine, and basic services, to…
DISPATCHES 6.19: CUATRO POR VENEZUELA FOUNDATION
Cuatro Por Venezuela delivers medicine, food, and supplies to Venezuelans in need. Our volunteer-run organization distributes hundreds of packages to our trusted network of local NGOs, foundations, hospitals, rural community centers, senior facilities, orphanages, and schools.
DISORDERED: Conversations about mental health and society by Rachel Brown
Disordered was a collaborative, participatory street art project designed to destigmatize mental health challenges like depression and anxiety, and reframe health as a societal issue. The project took the form of conversations, stickers, signs, and a mural in public spaces…
MAKING VAMIK’S ROOM by Molly S. Castelloe
How did I come to make a film about Dr. Vamik Volkan? The project arose from my experiences being a woman of a particular family rooted in the southern United States. As D.W. Winnicott said, home is where we start…
