Couched

Dr. Almas (Ally) Merchant, Dr. Billie Pivnick & Dr. Romy Reading, Produced by Hangar Studios, NYC
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Couched is a podcast series that lets you in on what leading cultural influencers and psychoanalysts are thinking about society today. We will feature 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 13 hr ago

    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 realized possibilities for meaningful action and transformative living.  Mentioned in this episode (in order of mention) Kelley, R. D.G. (2003). Freedom dreams: The black radical imagination. Penguin Books. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/206173/freedom-dreams-by-robin-dg-kelley/ DuBois, W.E.B.(1935). Black reconstruction in America: An essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880. Harcourt, Brace and Company. http://www.webdubois.org/wdb-BlackReconst.html No New Prisons Illinois - https://www.chicagoactivismhub.org/detail/2116/ Sedgwick, E. K. (1997). Paranoid reading and reparative reading; or, you’re so paranoid, you probably think this introduction is about you. In E. K. Sedgwick (Ed.), Novel gazing: queer readings on fiction (pp.1-38). Duke University Press. https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/636/chapter/128566/Paranoid-Reading-and-Reparative-Reading-or-You-re Boggs, N. (2025). Baldwin: A love story. Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux.  https://www.nicholasboggs.com/ El-Kurd. M. (2025). Perfect victims: And the politics of appeal. Haymarket.  https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2499-perfect-victims Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    50 min

  2. 24 Apr

    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 think beyond the status quo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    49 min

  3. 13/11/2025

    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 References A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia - David Eng & Shinhee Han Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic LIves of Asian Americans - David Eng & Shinhee Han Reparations and the Human - David Eng Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974 - 1989 Caucasia - Danzy Senna Joan Wallach Scott Donald W. Winnicott - Hate in the Countertransference Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    52 min

  4. 17/07/2025

    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/privacy for more information.

    53 min

  5. 02/04/2025

    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.

    48 min

  6. 21/11/2024

    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 information.

    40 min

  7. 04/04/2024

    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.

    36 min

  8. 23/02/2024

    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/privacy for more information.

    36 min
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Couched is a podcast series that lets you in on what leading cultural influencers and psychoanalysts are thinking about society today. We will feature 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Dr. Almas (Ally) Merchant, Dr. Billie Pivnick & Dr. Romy Reading, Produced by Hangar Studios, NYC
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    28
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, 2020
  • Show Website
    Couched

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