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Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action

ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
Psychoanalysis
Activism
Mental Health
Fascism
Art and Culture
Gun Violence
Donald Trump
Poetry
Democracy
Trauma
Young Women In Afghanistan
Authoritarianism
Social Justice Activism
Holocaust
Drag Performance
LGBTQ+ Community
Gender Nonconformity
Israel
Gaza
Silence

ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action is an award-winning interdisciplinary magazine conceived as an agent of community building and transformation. We are thrilled to launch Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action. On this podcast, writers, poets, activists, artists, and analysts who have contributed to ROOM converse about their work and the complex problems our world faces. The podcast ... more

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This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Shari Appollon, a Haitian-American psychoanalyst who trained at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. Appollon explores how her psychoanalytic training has complicated her vision of her family's origins... more

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Jamie Steele, a licensed marriage and family therapist and psychoanalytic candidate. Steele unpacks an encounter with fatphobia in psychoanalytic training, prompting questions of what bodies are permitted and whi... more

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Dr. Karim Dajani and Dr. Eyal Rozmarin, who began a correspondence through ROOM as Palestinian and Israeli analysts striving to comprehend Israel and Palestine and one another. Together, Dajani and Rozmarin have ... more

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Alexandra Woods, whose work operates at the intersections of the clinical, the personal, and the natural. As an analyst and a writer, Woods derives solace and inspiration from nature and activism. She explores th... more

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Dr. Anastasios Gaitanidis, a relational psychoanalyst based in London, whose work focuses on the intersection of psychological and political dimensions of cultural and environmental crisis. Relating to the work o... more

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Irwin Kula, a seventh-generation rabbi and President Emeritus of Clal–The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. Kula unpacks his motivation to write on gun violence and the unnerving reality of how ... more

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 in Lisbon. Mikulka unbraids discovery from colonial vision—dissecting what is truly new and what is ... more

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Sara Taber, author, social worker, psychologist, educator, and daughter of a CIA operative. For the past five years, Taber has run Writing for Resilience workshops for underprivileged communities. Taber's recent ... more

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Recent Guests

Shari Appollon
Haitian American psychoanalyst in private practice
New York City Affirmative Psychotherapy Group Practice
Episode: Close to Home with Shari Appollon
Jamie Steele
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Psychoanalytic Candidate in Private Practice
Private Practice, Washington, DC
Episode: Othered Bodies with Jamie Steele
Karim Dajani
Clinical psychologist, training and supervising analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
Episode: Talking Through Fury with Karim Dajani and Eyal Rozmarin
Eyal Rozmarin
Psychoanalyst and writer; co-editor of Third Way Psychoanalysis
Third Way Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic Dialogues
Episode: Talking Through Fury with Karim Dajani and Eyal Rozmarin
Alexandra Woods
Psychologist and psychoanalyst; activist-writer
Independent practitioner and writer
Episode: Solace for Survival with Alexandra Woods
Anastasios Gaitanidis
Relational psychoanalyst based in London
Lecturer/Author in psychoanalysis and environmental critique
Episode: What Hatred Helps Us Face with Anastasios Gaitanidis
Irwin Kula
President emeritus of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership and a cultural pundit.
National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership
Episode: Power, Agency, and Gun Violence with Irwin Kula
Sara Taber
Author of the award-winning memoir 'Born Under an Assumed Name', and a facilitator of Writing for Resilience workshops.
Episode: Writing for Resilience with Sara Taber
Xiaomeng Qiao
Psychoanalyst in training, writer, and game developer based in Oxford, UK.
Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Episode: Gaming, Analysis, and Identity in the Age of AI with Xiaomeng Qiao

Hosts

Isaac Slone
Host of Voices from ROOM, co-host with a focus on analytic action and community-facing discourse.
Aneta Stojnić
Co-host guiding conversations on psychoanalysis, social issues, and ROOM's analytic action.

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Recent interactions between the hosts and their guests.

Othered Bodies with Jamie Steele
Q: You mention how much of this is about the will I fit questions and the symbolic vs. lived body in the room; could you elaborate on how you navigate this balance in practice?
Jamie explains that therapists must hold both the surface content and the lived bodily experience, while also engaging with the symbolic meanings without letting one overshadow the other. This balance is essential to avoid dismissing real bodily realities in favor of abstract psychoanalytic constructs.
Othered Bodies with Jamie Steele
Q: What do you think psychoanalysis specifically is trying to avoid?
Jamie suggests that there's a risk of reducing embodied experience to purely symbolic interpretations and a reluctance to engage with the lived realities of patients, especially around fatness, body size, and health. The discussion centers on pushing psychoanalysis to acknowledge corporeal experiences without using them as mere raw data for transference analysis.
Solace for Survival with Alexandra Woods
Q: How do writing and psychoanalytic practice inform each other for you?
Writing helps preserve human connection in therapy work and vice versa, with narratives becoming a bridge between clinical insight and public activism, a way to translate personal experience into broader social understanding.
Solace for Survival with Alexandra Woods
Q: How did the wartime or political moment influence the form and focus of your essay?
The piece grew out of observing a moment of political upheaval and using nature and intimate domestic scenes to translate that pressure into a gentler, yet fortified, political voice that can still speak to large audiences.
Power, Agency, and Gun Violence with Irwin Kula
Q: What are your thoughts on this being an American phenomenon from your, also international experience?
Kula reflects on the unique prevalence of gun violence in America, noting its connection to national identity and the challenges of admitting failure as a society.

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The show centers on psychoanalysis as a lens for social discourse, hosting writers, therapists, activists, and analysts who have contributed to ROOM. Episodes surface how personal histories, cultural identities, and political realities intersect with clinical practice, writing, and community action. Specific topics span race, sexuality, body embodiment, climate crisis, gun violence, and the ethics of dialogue across divides, with guests often bringing scholarly insight together with lived experience. Notable throughlines include the use of narrative and narrative-driven therapies, the role of silence and trauma, and the potential for analytic thinking to inform resistance, resilience, and public-facing social change. The format frequently p... more

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1. Shari Appollon
2. Jamie Steele
3. Karim Dajani
4. Eyal Rozmarin
5. Alexandra Woods
6. Anastasios Gaitanidis
7. Irwin Kula
8. Sara Taber

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