Othered Bodies with Jamie Steel

By Tamar SchwartzMay 7, 2026May 7, 2026 Psychoanalysis

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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Mother as Shelter and Storm: The Dharmic self and the analytic couch

By Tamar SchwartzMay 7, 2026May 7, 2026 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Mother as Shelter and Storm: The Dharmic self and the analytic couch by Chandra Rai on The American Psychoanalyst’s Substack on May 07, 2026.

For Freud’s 170th Birthday

By Tamar SchwartzMay 6, 2026May 6, 2026 Arts, Books, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Purchase: The Unknown Freud: Five Plays and Five Essays by Robert L. Lippman.

Click Here to To Read: Freud In Rome: It Takes A Little Courage: A Play in Two Acts with Epilogue By Robert L. Lippman, excerpted from The Unknown Freud: Five Plays and Five Essays by Robert L. Lippman published by IPBooks.

What Depression Feels Like

By Tamar SchwartzMay 6, 2026May 6, 2026 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: What Depression Feels Like: From the Depressed Person’s Viewpoint (Not the Clinician’s) (Vol. 6; Issue 18) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD on his Journeys Into the Unconscious mind website on May 6, 2026.

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The Mysteries of Intimacies: The Darkness and Light of the Existential Limits of Love

By Tamar SchwartzApril 29, 2026April 29, 2026 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: The Mysteries of Intimacies: The Darkness and Light of the Existential Limits of Love (Vol.6; Issue 17) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD on Journeys Into the Unconscious Mind website on April 29, 2026.

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On Death, The Oceanic Feeling, and Unions in Community Mental Health

By Tamar SchwartzApril 27, 2026April 27, 2026 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: On Death, The Oceanic Feeling, and Unions in Community Mental Health: Remarks I delivered at the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology by Carter J. Carter, Ph.D LICSW on his Psycho Analyst substack on April 24, 2026,

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