22 episodes

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.
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Couched Dr. Almas (Ally) Merchant, Dr. Billie Pivnick & Dr. Romy Reading, Produced by Hangar Studios, NYC

    • Science

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.

    Beyond Surveillance and Criminalization : Sex Work, Fetish, and Feminist Action as Care

    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.
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    • 35 min
    Dismantling Anti-Black Logics: Creating Alternative forms of Knowledge and Storytelling

    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.
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    • 36 min
    Surviving Apocalyptic Catastrophes: Facing Reality and Imagining a Future of Care

    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 demoralization.
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    • 37 min
    “Something We Call Care”: Land, Community, and the Social Imaginary

    “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. Using an ethnographic approach that is rooted in subject-centered ethics, our guests share clinical wisdom rooted in identifying the absence of institutional recovery programs as the site of community care.


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    • 42 min
    All Together Now: Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic

    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.
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    • 53 min
    Decolonizing Psychoanalysis: Intersections of the Interior and Exterior

    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 lived experiences of otherness and alienation.
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    • 50 min

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