ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action is an award-winning interdisciplinary magazine conceived as an agent of community building. ROOM offers a transdisciplinary approach to thinking about the complex problems in our world and invites a greater familiarity with psychoanalysis as a lens for social discourse. The magazine, which is free online and available for purchase in print, is published three times a year. An international Roundtable follows each issue, allowing readers and authors to deepen the conversation together. ROOM also holds poetry salons, an annual gala, and a bi-monthly podcast featuring ROOM contributors. The PEN World Voices Festival showcased ROOM as an “indie lit mag” that “honors the art of the possible and the power of storytelling to push boundaries, challenge inherent narratives, and give voice to hope.”

 

ROOM, which has now been read in over 160 countries, was created by a group of psychoanalysts from IPTAR (The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research) in the wake of the 2016 US election. The first issue resonated with readers far beyond our local community, demonstrating this new platform’s potential. IPTAR supported ROOM in producing a second issue and became its fiscal sponsor. Over the coming years, ROOM received essential grants from the American Psychoanalytic Foundation of ApsaA, the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses/New York Foundation for the Arts, and the publisher IP Books. Since establishing an independent 501(c)(3) in 2022, a growing group of institutions have partnered with ROOM to help facilitate the platform’s social mission. ROOM is a participatory community project entirely dependent upon the donations, submissions, and enthusiasm of its worldwide readership.  

“… The individual… a cog in the gigantic machine… feels bewildered in his orientation, and inhibited in his powers and activities. I believe that he will welcome any indication, however slight, which will make it easier for him to find his bearings within himself at least.”
(1) Freud, S. (1915). Thoughts For The Times On War And Death. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIV (1914-1916).
Editor in Chief

Hattie Myers, PhD

Creative Director

Boyd Delancey

Managing Editor

Brent Matheńy

Assistant to the Editor in Chief

Claire Oleson

Chief Operating Officer

Tessa Peteete

Program Director

Isaac Slone, MA

Editorial Board

Phyllis Beren, PhD
Kate Daniels
Elizabeth Cutter Evert, LCSW
Janet Fisher, PhD
Richard Grose, PhD
Brent Matheny
Francesca Schwartz, PhD
Aneta Stojnić, PhD

Art Editor

Francesca Schwartz, PhD

Book Review Editor

Richard Grose, PhD

Community Projects Editor

Elizabeth Cutter Evert, LCSW

Poetry Editors

Elizabeth Kandall, PhD
Eugene Mahon, MD

 

Copy Editors and Proofreaders 

Penina Lopez
Richard Shealy

Soliciting Editors/Acquisition Liaisons

C. Jama Adams, PhD
Marcia Black
Carter J. Carter, PhD
Karim Dajani, PsyD
Fang Duan
Rossanna Echegoyén, LCSW
Adrienne Harris, PhD
Annie Lee Jones, PhD
Susan Kassouf, PhD
Kerry Malawista, PhD
Lara Sheehi, PsyD

 

Editorial Consultant

Jeanne Parr Lemkau, PhD, MFA

Board of Directors

Phyllis Beren, PhD
Michael Diamond, PhD
Elizabeth C. Evert, LCSW
Janet Fisher, PhD
Richard Grose, PhD
Marilyn Kohn
Karen Kornblum
Michael Krass, PhD
Jaime Levine
Hattie Myers, PhD
David Neuwirth
Francesca Schwartz, PhD
Polly Weissman 

Collaborating Institutes
  • Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
  • Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS)
  • Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR)
  • Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (ICP+P)
  • International Psychoanalytic Books (IP Books)
  • New Directions in Writing
  • Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN)

Mafe Izaguirre, cofounder and creative director, 2017-2021
Sonal Sonai, cofounder and editor, 2017-2019
Gila Ashtor, cofounder and editor, 2017-2019
Leon Anisfeld, editor, 2018-2020

Awards

2023 IPA in Culture Award Winner
Gradiva® Award 2018
2018 Gradiva® Award Winner
New Media

Institutional Partnerships

Community of Literary Magazines and Presses New York
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Funding has been provided by the American Psychoanalytic Foundation through the American Psychoanalytic Association
IP Books
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