Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action

Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action

ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action

Episodes 49
Avg. Duration 37m
Activity Highly Active
Since Sep 2022
Latest Episode Feb 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule
Monthly
Format
Episodic
Consistency
42%
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About This Podcast

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 is co-hosted by psychoanalytic candidates Isaac Slone and Aneta Stojnić and furthers ROOM’s mission to highlight psychoanalysis as an important lens for social discourse.

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Recent Episodes

S3E6 Power, Agency, and Gun Violence with Irwin Kula

Feb 19, 2026 34m

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…

S3E5 Reframing Discovery with JT Mikulka

Dec 18, 2025 34m

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…

S3E4 Writing for Resilience with Sara Taber

Dec 04, 2025 42m

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…

S3E3 Gaming, Analysis, and Identity in the Age of AI with Xiaomeng Qiao

Oct 29, 2025 40m

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Xiaomeng Qiao, an analyst-in-training, writer, and game developer. Qiao examines the potential and the limitations of AI usage in analysis, self-understanding,…

S3E2 The Weight of Silence with Kissu Taffere

Oct 16, 2025 41m

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Kissu Taffere, a licensed clinical social worker whose clinical focus centers on women in BIPOC and immigrant communities. Taffere was laid off from a refugee…

S3E1 Encountering Bravery with Lord John Alderdice

Oct 02, 2025 25m

At ROOM's fifth annual Gala held this past summer, we honored Lord John Alderdice with the Coline Covington Award for his courage in facing divisions, connecting communities, and forging peace…

Authentic Activism with Ipek S. Burnett

Jun 12, 2025 44m

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Dr. Ipek S. Burnett, author, cultural critic, and co-chair of the Human Rights Watch's Executive Committee. Burnett compares Robert J. Lifton's work on psychic…

A Binding Legacy with Rina Lazar

May 29, 2025 42m

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Dr. Rina Lazar, a clinical psychologist practicing in Tel Aviv who brings an anti-war perspective to current events from within Israel. Lazar explores the…

Too Radical, Not Radical Enough with Max Beshers

May 15, 2025 39m

This week, Aneta and Isaac talk with licensed clinical social worker Max Beshers. Beshers applies analytic thinking in spaces ranging from private practice to anti-racism reading groups to local…

Fascism's Erotic Lure with Sue Grand

Apr 24, 2025 52m

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Sue Grand, faculty and supervisor at the NYU postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Grand dissects the constructions, destructions, erotics,…

Living Histories with Mary B. McRae

Mar 19, 2025 43m

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Mary B. McRae, who describes her experience growing up in a segregated southern Black community, migrating to NYC as a teen, and her revolutionary days in groups…

Wrestling Faith with Katie Burner

Feb 21, 2025 38m

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Katie Burner, a therapist raised inside the Latter-day Saints faith. Burner unpacks how her Mormon upbringing and experience at institutions like Brigham Young…

Minding the Gap in Democracy and Psychoanalysis with Jill Gentile

Jan 08, 2025 52m

This week, Isaac and Aneta speak with Jill Gentile about how the liberatory and inclusive projects of democracy and psychoanalysis reflect and enable patriarchy. Suggesting that castration fantasy…

Taking Considered Action with Robert Frey

Dec 05, 2024 27m

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Dr. Robert Frey about his work in international medicine and his direct action against the use of nuclear equipment to mine for oil in Western Colorado. Frey…

Facing Complicity with Michael Krass

Nov 22, 2024 36m

This week, hosts Aneta Stojnić and Isaac Slone speak with Michael Krass, a psychoanalyst and the president of the Contemporary Freudian Society. Krass shows how the disavowal of unconscious racism by…

How Activism Speaks with Jyoti Rao

Nov 08, 2024 46m

This week, hosts Aneta Stojnić and Isaac Slone speak with psychoanalyst Jyoti Rao on her view of social justice activism as an interpretation of society itself. Rao unpacks how recent student…

Architecture of Remembrance with Tom Hennes

Oct 24, 2024 41m

This week, hosts Aneta Stojnić and Isaac Slone speak with Tom Hennes, founder of Thinc Design. Hennes discusses his apprehension around the phrase "Never Forget" and its possible weaponization…

Acting when Politicians Fail Us with Dean Hammer

Aug 06, 2024 38m

This week, we had the pleasure of talking with Dr. Dean Hammer, a consummate Activist-Practitioner who refutes silence in the face of malignant normality. Hammer explains the pull of quiet…

Hearing Untold Stories with Alberto Minujin

Jul 04, 2024 36m

In our conversation with Alberto Minujin, we learn about his work enfranchising the agency and identity of Latinx women in Queens. Minujin unpacks the mutual excitement and hesitancy of the…

Violence as Societal Disorder with Dr. Bandy X. Lee

Jun 12, 2024 40m

This week we speak with Dr. Bandy X. Lee, editor of the best selling book "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" and president of the World Mental Health Coalition, about her life-long work studying,…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action have?

Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action has published 49 episodes since September 2022, covering topics in Arts.

Is Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action still active?

Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action is currently highly active with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 37m.

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