Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

Joseph Scalia III holds a Psya. D. in Psychoanalysis, Society and Culture from the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. He is in private practice in Livingston, Montana, living on the northern reaches of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Dr Scalia is also a conservationist whose environmental criticisms have appeared recently in CounterPunch, Mountain Journal, Wilderness Podcast, Rendering U...

Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez works as a Lacanian psychoanalyst in private practice in Vancouver, Canada. She has vast clinical experience in public and private settings in Mexico and Canada. She has a Master’s degree in clinical psychology by Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) and a Master’s Degree in literature by University of British Columbia (UBC). She is a PhD candidate in the Departme...

Dr. Leon Brenner is a research fellow at the University of Potsdam and lecturer at the International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin. He is a training analyst, studying member of the APPI and a founder of Lacanian Affinities Berlin (laLAB). His latest book on the subject of the psychoanalysis of autism is called The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language, where he presents a novel accoun...

Clint Burnham is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, where he also teaches theory and popular culture. https://sfu.academia.edu/ClintBurnham Follow him at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sinthomista/ He is one of the facilitators of the Lacan Salon. https://www.lacansalon.com Follow Lacan Salon on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lacansalon/ and Twitter: ht...

Ksera Dyette, PsyD. is a 31-year-old, cisgender, Black West Indian woman, who is a Licensed Clinical & Forensic Psychologist in Massachusetts. She is an immigrant, intersectional feminist, and social justice-oriented clinician and her unique story informs her clinical work. As a person with multiply intersecting marginalized identities, Dr. Dyette does not get to hide some of these more import...

Heather Farrow, PsyD is a Clinical Psychologist working at the Detroit VA Medical Center. She is a member of AKA, the first Black Sorority in the world, which includes member Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Follow her at instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drheatherfarrow/ This episode is also available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/V6R-cEaYZSw Mentioned in this episode: “Racial...

Michael O’Loughlin is Professor in the College of Education and Health Sciences and Professor and in the Ph. D. program in Clinical Psychology at Adelphi University, New York. He has authored, co-authored or edited ten books, most recently [With S. Arac-Orhun and M. Queler], Lives Interrupted: Psychiatric narratives of struggle and resilience [Lexington Books, 2019]. Since 2018 he has been co-edit...

Tayannah Lee McQuillar is a tarot reader and researcher of religion, esoterica, and mysticism. The author of several books, including Rootwork(2003), Creole Fire (2017), Tupac Shakur: the Life and Times of an American Icon (2010) co-authored with Fred L. Johnson, PhD, as well as The Hoodoo Tarot and The Sibyls Oraculum with artwork by Katelan Foisy. Her upcoming book is Astrology for Mystics forth...

Klara Naszkowska, Ph. D., Cultural Historian specialising in the early history of psychoanalysis. Founding director of the International Association for Spielrein Studies, 2019/2020 Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. Author of the book The Living Mirror: The Representation of Doubling Identities in the British and Polish Women’s Literature (1846-1938)...

Sheldon George is Professor of English and Chair of the English department at Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts. His scholarship centers most directly on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and applies cultural and literary theory to analyses of American and African-American literature and culture. He is author of Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity and coedi...

Dr. Robert Samuels is Lecturer in advanced writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He holds doctorates in Psychoanalysis and English. He is the author of 11 books, including Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences (2017), Freud for the Twenty-First Century (2019), Psychoanalyzing the Left and Right after Donald Trump (2016) and Why Public Higher Education Should...

Katharina Rothe, Ph. D., is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst and psychosocial researcher. She is a graduate of psychoanalytic training at the W. A. White Institute in New York - http://www.wawhite.org - where she also teaches the course Gender, Sex & Sexuality. Alongside maintaining a private practice in New York City, she is widely published in academic journals and books on psychoanalysis,...

Chris Semtner is an internationally exhibited fine artist whose paintings have entered numerous public collections including the Virginia Historical Society and the University of Maryland. https://chrissemtner.com Semtner has written several books and chapters on topics including literature, visual art, and history in addition to contributing articles to Biography.com, Resources for American Liter...

Molly Castelloe, Ph. D, is a writer and videographer. She studied theatre and psychoanalysis at New York University and has published in international journals on psychoanalysis and group dynamics. For her film Vamik's Room, she garnered the Gradiva Award, which recognizes artistic excellence in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Molly is also an analytic candidate at the National Psychological Ass...

Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson: Live at the Escuela Incierta, Lugar a dudas, Cali, Colombia, July 7, 2018. Join us at: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Vanessa Sinclair, Psy. D. is a psychoanalyst, artist, author and poet, who relocated from New York City to Stockholm and sees clients internationally. http://www.drvanessasinclair.net Carl Abrahamsson is a Swedish author, musician, artist, photog...

Işık Barış Fidaner, PhD is a computer scientist who runs the blog Žižekian Analysis, “Learn, learn and learn!”: https://zizekanalysis.wordpress.com As well as Yersiz Kitaplar: https://yersizseyler.wordpress.com/kitap/ And the Žižekian Analysis facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Zatss You can support his work at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zizekanalysis Follow him at Twitter: http...

Andrew McLuhan is a Media Educator and Associate Editor of the Winnipeg School of Communication’s journal, Winnsox. He is a husband, father, poet, writer, teacher, craftsman, and explorer. Involved with McLuhan Studies for over a decade, Andrew was responsible for the inventory and evaluation of Marshall McLuhan’s “working library” and presents on the subject widely. Marshall McLuhan’s working lib...

Richard Newton is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. He received his PhD in Critical Comparative Scriptures from Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Newton’s areas of interest include theory and method in the study of religion, African American history, the New Testament in Western imagination, American cultural politics, and pedagogy in religious studies. His re...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Irene Strasser and Martin Dege to the podcast to discuss their process creating the recent online event series Psychology of Global Crisis 2020 hosted by American University of Paris https://www.aup.edu/psychology-global-crises and their podcast Crisis Talk. https://crisistalk.net Keynote and panel presentations from PSG2020 are available at YouTube: https://www.yout...

What have we been up to lately? And our friends? Join us – Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson – as we talk about what’s been going in terms of creative input and output! Remember to support the 23rd Mind TV show at: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Join us at Patreon for the unfolding of our experimental novel, “The Exquisite Corpse,” as well as for “23rd Mind” magic, creative cut-ups, inter...

Dr. Kevin Volkan is a founding faculty member and Professor of Psychology at California State University Channel Islands, where he researches and teaches courses in psychopathology and atypical behaviors, personality theory, as well as Nazi Germany, and Eastern philosophy. He also currently serves on the Graduate Medical Education faculty for the Community Memorial Hospital system in Ventura CA, w...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Carlos Padrón, a Latinx licensed psychoanalyst and an advanced candidate at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR). He originally studied philosophy in Venezuela, then earned an MA in philosophy with a concentration in psychoanalysis at the New School for Social Research, and finally an MPhil in Latin American literature at New York University...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. Dwight Turner to the podcast! Dr. Turner is a Psychotherapist & Supervisor working in London and Paddington, as well as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton. Dr. Turner casts an intersectional lens on privilege, supremacy, otherness and social justice. Please visit his website https://www.dwightturnercounselling.co.uk where his research and writing may...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. Joel Weinberger to the podcast. Joel Weinberger, PhD, is Professor in the Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and of the American Psychological Association. His research on unconscious processes has been recognized with the Ulf Kragh Award from the University of Lundh, Sweden. Author or co...

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Tom Bland to the podcast! Tom Bland studied psychotherapy and dream analysis at The Society for Psychology and Healing, and Contemporary Performance Practices and Live Art at University of East London. He teaches online writing courses and edits the magazine, Spontaneous Poetics. https://www.spontaneouspoetics.co.uk Tom Bland’s The Death of the Clown is out with Bad...