Couched
Couched is a podcast series that lets you in on what leading cultural influencers and psychoanalysts are thinking about society today. It features conversations with artists, scientists, and change-makers about our current political climate, social justice, and our struggles to find sanity in an increasingly uncertain world.
Episodes
Using the Abolitionist Imaginary to Create: Choreographing a Habitable Life through Movement, Storytelling, and Activism
Join us for this embodied and moving conversation with Harrison Guy and Dr. Brianna Suslovic. Our guests teach us how to harness the reconstructive power of the abolitionist movement in order to reimagine a thriving black and queer life. Anchored both in their spirited optimism and capacity to face the brutal realities of injustice, our guests inspire listeners to engage with the yet to be realize
Dismantling Structural Constraints: Challenging the "Punishment Bureaucracy” and Facism in Psychoanalysis
Join us for this stirring conversation with Dr. Carter Carter and Alec Karakatsanis. Our guests peel back the curtain and inspire with a paradigm-shifting conversation on how they wrest life from institutions and build communities for themselves and others. By exposing the limits to our imagination when we adhere to the counterintuitive logics of institutionalization, our guests challenge us to th
Bringing the Unthought Asian-American Subject to Mind: Cultivating Concern and Care in the Socio-Clinical Space
Join us for this illuminating conversation with Drs. Mary Kim Brewster, David Eng, and Shinhee Han. Our guests confront the dangerous myths of yellow peril and the model minority in the context of negated geo-political histories. They encourage us to imagine the Asian American subject’s relationality as both “Asian” and “American” and as a necessary condition towards repair and recognition.Episode
Reconfiguring Transitional Space: Queer Negativity, Trans Imaginaries, and Impossible Bodies
Join us for this timely truth-telling conversation with multi-medium artist Kris Grey and author and psychoanalyst, Griffin Hansbury. Our guests crack open the delusions of binary gender and hyper-normativity, bringing forth expansive modes of being and thinking. This episode invites all to experience the pleasure and potency of nuanced subversion and non-conformity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com
Surviving Institutional Failures: Expanding the Psychoanalytic Canon
Join us for this poetic and incisive conversation between Foluke Taylor and Jyoti Rao. Our guests explore the toxicity of institutional stasis and the subversive urgency of grief and grievance. Through their conversation they model inclusivity, interdisciplinarity, and intimacy offering us an alternative path through. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Group Psychology: The Promise and Perils of Togetherness
Join us for this inspiring conversation between Dr. Francisco Gonzalez and Dr. George Makari. Our guests explore the impact of group dynamics on both individuals’ lives and in our collective experiences. Their in-depth analysis helps us to understand how the contradictory experiences of belonging and exclusion continually shape and reshape us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform
Beyond Surveillance and Criminalization : Sex Work, Fetish, and Feminist Action as Care
Join us for this eye-opening conversation between Yin Q and Dr. Katie Gentile. Our guests challenge common preconceptions about sex work, kink, and reproductive justice. Through academic rigor and poetic expression, they draw us into unique perspectives on sex worker advocacy and feminism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dismantling Anti-Black Logics: Creating Alternative forms of Knowledge and Storytelling
Join us for a heartfelt conversation between psychoanalyst, Chanda D. Griffin and choreographers, Hilary Brown-Istrefi and Briana Brown-Tipley. Our guests share their embodied and scholarly knowledge about anti-blackness and creativity. They inspire and challenge us to think beyond the confines of white supremacist structures and invite us into new imaginaries. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva
Surviving Apocalyptic Catastrophes: Facing Reality and Imagining a Future of Care
Join us for this incisive and rallying conversation between, Drs. Robert J. Lifton and Sally Weintrobe, as they discuss the obstacles to facing our catastrophes, past, present, and future. Our guests share their personal and scholarly wisdom, pointing us toward the importance of mourning what we have lost and are losing, while encouraging us to sustain hope despite rising demoraliza
“Something We Call Care”: Land, Community, and the Social Imaginary
Join us for this lyrical yet sobering conversation between psychoanalyst, filmmaker, and professor, Dr. Ricardo (Rico) Ainslie and anthropologist, professor and author, Dr. Angela Garcia. Through offering us an intimate look into the communities they work with and belong to, our guests bring us into the lives of those impacted by the historical trauma of land loss, displacement, and suffering. Usi
All Together Now: Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic
Join us for this profoundly moving conversation between colleagues and close friends, Dr. Judith Butler and Dr. Ken Corbett, as they engage with and reflect on the altered landscape of our world since the COVID-19 pandemic. Our guests share personally impactful insights and clinical wisdom rooted in phenomenology and psychoanalysis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Decolonizing Psychoanalysis: Intersections of the Interior and Exterior
Join us for this intimate and intellectual conversation between Dr. Gail Lewis and Dr. Lara Sheehi, both of whom are esteemed authors, activists, psychoanalytic therapists, and professors as they engage each others’ stories about how their commitments to the decolonization of psychoanalytic discourses evolved. Our guests offer cogent social and clinical critiques that offer a way through painful l
Exposing Transphobic Legacies, Embracing Trans Life
Join us for this riveting conversation between Dr. Jules Gill-Peterson, author and distinguished professor of transgender history and history of sexuality, and Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou, esteemed psychoanalyst and author, as they put forth a cogent analysis of both the history of transphobia and the current onslaught of assaults on trans children. Our guests offer incisive social and clinical critique
Our Bodies, Our Lives: Protecting Reproductive Rights
Join us for this hard-hitting conversation between Kathryn “Kitty” Kolbert, distinguished attorney who defended reproductive rights in the U.S. Supreme Court, and Dr. Katie Gentile, esteemed psychoanalyst, professor, and author, as they tackle the current assault on women's freedom. Our guests put forth both a cultural critique and propose necessary actions for this time of crisis. Listeners will
Transcending Binaries: Finding Freedom through Play
Join us for this inspiring conversation between Ken Corbett, psychoanalyst and author, and Maggie Nelson, MacArthur Genius Award-winning writer, as they grapple with finding middle-ground in a contentious world. Our guests guide us toward a more nuanced engagement with the many fights for freedom we face in our daily lives. Listeners will find creative perspectives on sex, parenting, and climate a
What’s Repaired in Reparations: A Conversation Among Psychoanalytic and Social Activists
Join us for this vital conversation featuring psychologists, scholars, and community activists working to further efforts toward reparations in both the United States and South Africa. Our guests, clinical psychologist, author, and community activist, Dr. Medria Connolly; Professor of Historical Trauma Studies at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, author, and current Fellow at Harvard Univer
Remembering Winnicott: A Graphic Memoirist and a Psychoanalyst Discuss Creativity in Writing and Psychotherapy
Join us for this inspiring conversation with Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow and award-winning graphic novelist Alison Bechdel and esteemed psychologist, psychoanalyst, and writer, Dr. Ken Corbett, as they discuss their personal reflections on the work of renowned British psychoanalyst, Donald W. Winnicott. Our guests consider how co-creating meaning can help us feel vitality in living and as we f
Facing Fossil Fuels' Effects: Psychoanalysts and Climate Activists Confront the Climate Crisis
Listen in on this eye-opening conversation with internationally renowned author and climate activist, Bill McKibben, and esteemed psychologist, psychoanalyst, and scholar, Dr. Donna Orange, as they discuss the urgency of awakening to the realities of climate change. Our guests wrestle with the stark uncertainties of our planet’s future and encourage us to bravely face the shocking effects of clima
Moving Conversations: What Can Psychoanalysts and Choreographers Learn from One Another?
Listen in on this enlivening conversation with internationally renowned choreographer, Bill T. Jones, and esteemed psychoanalyst, Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies, and Dean of Humanities at Rutgers University, Dr. Michelle Stephens, as they discuss the role of the social world in their work. Our guests tackle a range of topics related to race, trauma, and the pandemic whi
Braving the U.S. Election
Listen in on this conversation with renowned psychohistorian, Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, and esteemed psychoanalyst/political commentator, Dr. Andrew Samuels, as they discuss the upcoming U.S. election. Our guests tackle a range of topics related to the current political storms. They call attention to the ways that human psychology and passion inform and intersect with the political. Their insights pr
What’s Systemic about Racism?
Listen in on this enlightening conversation with internationally-renowned philosopher and professor, Dr. Judith Butler and esteemed critical social theorist/psychoanalyst, Dr. Patricia Clough as they discuss systemic racism. Our guests offer a clear and understandable explanation of what differentiates systemic racism from individual prejudice. They also call attention to the ways that COVID has d
Border Crisis: A Psychoanalyst and Filmmaker Confront Family Separation
Listen in to the inspiring conversation with psychologist/psychoanalyst, Dr. Spyros Orfanos, and award-winning documentary filmmaker, Ellen Goosenberg Kent. Our guests explore the intersections of their work with refugees, asylum seekers, and those enduring family separation. Both take you into the heart of their encounters with this difficult issue. This episode is sure to evoke empathy and desir
Adolescents Falling: What Grownups Don't See
Listen in to our continuing conversation with psychologist/psychoanalyst, Dr. Ken Corbett, andaward-winning literary fiction writer, Susan Choi. Our guests take us behind the scenes of thestories told in their recent books. Through spirited discussion they expand our perspectives onthe ways in which adults can and do fail adolescents in their attempts to navigate thecomplexities of sexuality, race
Adolescent Outsider Stories
Esteemed psychologist and psychoanalyst, Dr. Ken Corbett, and award-winning literary fiction writer, Susan Choi, in an exploration of each other’s work, discuss how feeling like an outsider in adolescence can deeply affect choice. Through their writing, they illuminate how the struggle to repair a damaged sense of self can go terribly awry and lead to acts of betrayal, trauma, and violence. The gu
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Restoring Reality: Part 2
Esteemed activists Drs. Robert Jay Lifton and Stephen Soldz return to expand on their ideas from Part 1 in order to map the undercurrents of the ongoing pandemic. With depth and compassion our guests share their hard-earned wisdom in order to help us recover a sense of hope and sanity in these frightening and disorienting times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Restoring Reality
Renowned activists, Drs. Robert J. Lifton and Stephen Soldz, share the wisdom that they have gained while fighting to expose malignancy in political and social institutions. From nuclearism to APA-sanctioned torture, from Trumpism to the destruction of the political order, our guests have confronted, exposed, and brought change to the most repellant of society’s evils. In this episode we lear
Welcome to Couched!
Listen in on revealing conversations between psychoanalysts and public figures about social issues facing the world today. Co-hosts, Dr. Billie Pivnick and Dr. Romy Reading invite artists, scientists, social scientists, and community activists to share the ways that their personal experiences have led them to political, social, or creative action. As conversations unfold, new ideas will move liste
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