International Journal of Controversial Discussions Issue Volume #3 Issue # 2

By Categories: Psychoanalysis
 Click Here to Read: The International Journal of Controversial Discussions Volume #3 Issue #2.  The theme of the issue is Primary Femininity: Discussions on a Central Identity, with a target paper by Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed.D and edited by M. Sagman Kayatekin, M.D. There is also a paper entitled Psychoanalytic History—Sketches The Power of Exclusion (An Ode to Sheldon Bach and Sándor Ferenczi) by Carolyn Ellman with commentary by Ph.D. with a response by Giselle Galdi. This journal is supported by a generous grant from the American Psychoanalytic Foundation.
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How individual consciousness works – and makes us unique

By Categories: Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: How individual consciousness works – and makes us unique
by Peter Coppola and Emmanuel A Stamatakis on The Conversation website on  May 1, 2026.

Robert Fludd, Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris […] historia, tomus II (1619), tractatus I, sectio I, liber X, De triplici animae in corpore visione. Image: Robert Fludd Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Othered Bodies with Jamie Steel

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Episode 53 of Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action, “Othered Bodies with Jamie Steele” is now available wherever you listen to podcasts.
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Jamie Steele, a licensed marriage and family therapist and psychoanalytic candidate. Steele unpacks an encounter with fatphobia in psychoanalytic training, prompting questions of what bodies are permitted and which are shamed in psychoanalytic spaces. While analysis has shown a growing interest in understanding embodiment, Steele explains how subaltern bodies are still largely excluded from the conversation and literature that shapes our culture.
“I could not stop dwelling on that first question: Can it hold me? Will I fit? My Goldilocks search for an analytic training program, and more specifically for a training analyst, has been a long one, spanning three institutes and nearly a decade.” — Jamie Steele, “Mis/Fitting” ROOM 6.24

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