The Afghanistan Story

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 4, 2025December 4, 2025 History, Politics, Psychoanalysis, Uncategorized

Click Here to Read: The Afghanistan Story by Sara Taber from ROOM:A Sketchbook for Analytic Action Issue 10.24 ont the ROOM website.

Image: Source: DefenseLINK Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

An Afghan family from the Pashtun tribe sits together in their home in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Can Trump’s Peace Initiative Stop the Congo’s Thirty-Year War?

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 28, 2025November 28, 2025 Politics

Click Here to Read: Can Trump’s Peace Initiative Stop the Congo’s Thirty-Year War? The President declared a diplomatic triumph. The view from the ground is more complex By Jon Lee Anderson
in The New Yorker on November 24, 2025.

Uncovering the Lies Abusers Tell: How Psychoanalysts and Journalists Use Truth to Empower

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 27, 2025November 27, 2025 Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Uncovering the Lies Abusers Tell: How Psychoanalysts and Journalists Use Truth to Empower (Vol. 5; Issue 46) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD on his Journeys into the Unconscious Mind Substack on November 26, 2025.

President Donald Trump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and President of Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa. Image: White House Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

No Kings – Bridging Big Feelings

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 20, 2025November 20, 2025 Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: No Kings – Bridging Big Feelings by Kalpana Asok as #Marginal Musings on her Chai and Clarity Substack on November 17, 2025.

No Kings protest at the Daley Center in Chicago Image: AlphaBeta135. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Burning Down the House

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 20, 2025November 20, 2025 History, Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Burning Down the House: Avgi Saketopoulou’s lecture “Fighting Fire with Fire” left me wondering if there may be more than one way to burn by Adam Blum on the TAP website on November 20, 2025.

Image: Figure8 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

By Adam Blum

Gluttony in the Global Fire Zone

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 20, 2025November 20, 2025 Politics, Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: Gluttony in the Global Fire Zone: Unchecked Greed, Expansive Egotism, and Blatant Denial of Our Overheating Planet (Vol. 5; Issue 45) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD on his Journeys Into the Unconscious Mind Substack on November 19, 2025.

Image: Cristian Ibarra Santillan Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Room’s Work Wins the Sigourney Award – 2025

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 17, 2025November 17, 2025 Arts, General, Literature, Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Room’s Work Wins the Sigourney Award – 2025.
Click Here to Read: The current issue of Room, 10.25.
Click Here to Read: All past issues of Room.

And join Room’s Roundtable. Join ROOM 10.25 contributors as they explore their layered personal and professional realities and how they are responding to our current world.
Saturday, November 22, 2025
12 PM EDT
Live via Zoom
Read the featured contributors’ work here:
Dana Amir – “Looking into the Face of the Gorgon”
Patrick Cole – “We’ve Had a Problem”
Eiman Hussein – “The Unseen Scars: Navigating the Psychological Landscape of Sudan’s World”