International Journal of Controversial Discussions Issue Volume #4 Issue #2
By Categories: Psychoanalysis
 Click Here to Read: The International Journal of Controversial Discussions Volume #4 Issue #2.  The theme of the issue is Psychedelics and Psychoanalytic Treatment and it is edited by Neal Spira.  It includes articles and commentaries by Neal Spira, C.J. Healy,   Lawrence G. Fischman,  Chistopher W. T. Miller,  Tracy Sidesinger, Thomas Brod, and Robert Galatzer-Levy. This journal is supported by a generous grant from the American Psychoanalytic Foundation.
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The Booker Prize Gets Its First ‘Bona Fide’: Science Fiction Winner M. John Harrison’s dystopian tale “The End of Everything” beat out higher profile books by Marlon James, Elizabeth Strout and Douglas Stuart
By Categories: Books, Literature

Click Here to Read: The Booker Prize Gets Its First ‘Bona Fide’: Science Fiction Winner M. John Harrison’s dystopian tale “The End of Everything” beat out higher profile  books by Marlon James, Elizabeth Strout and Douglas Stuart By Alex Marshall in The New York Times on November 9, 2026.

Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974): The Tyranny of Memory and the Refusal to Mourn
By Categories: Poetry Monday

Click Here to Read: Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974): The Tyranny of Memory and the Refusal to Mourn by Robert Goodman on his Spoken Word Poetry website on November 11, 2026.

Photograph of the poet Anne Sexton taken during a poetry course she taught at Boston University, 1974. Image: Associated Press.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Tracking the Crisis: Reckoning: The midterm rout has thrown MAGA into turmoil, an AI sell-off has rocked Wall Street, and progressive candidates are celebrating historic wins
By Categories: Politics

Click Here to Read: Tracking the Crisis: Reckoning: The midterm rout has thrown MAGA into turmoil, an AI sell-off has rocked Wall Street, and progressive candidates are celebrating historic wins in the Nation Magazine Substack on November 8, 2026.

Results of the 2026 United States House of Representatives election Image: Coolxsearcher1414  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Episode 57 of Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action, “Race Matters with Jennifer Hall”
By Categories: Politics, Psychoanalysis
Episode 57 of Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action, “Race Matters with Jennifer Hall” is now available wherever you listen to podcasts.
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Jennifer Hall, a psychotherapist with a private practice in New York City. Hall, as a Black therapist, entered her practice prepared to seek and advertise primarily to Black women. Navigating the complex bundle of expectations around race, care, and expertise, she found herself surprised as she took on referred white clientele. Far from deciding that race does not impact the clinical space, Hall instead elucidates how racial difference doesn’t work like a brick wall against connection, but rather, as a nuanced bundle of conscious and instinctual expectations shared across an encounter.
“Rather than as an impenetrable block, race shows itself in the instinctual ways that we both attempt to edit ourselves in order to foster connection.”
— Jennifer Hall, “This Black Thing” ROOM 6.26