ClicK Here to Read: When I Met My Inner Healer in a Lucid Dream by Nabil Verdickt on the Spirituality and Health website.
Dreamscape: image: Laurent Virzi Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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Deadline Approaching: ROOM 6.26 is Open for Submissions
“Courage is contagious.”
— Kathryn Pollak, Engaged Defenders for Democracy
Kathryn spoke at the ROOM 2.26 Roundtable this week about building a grassroots democracy movement from the ground up. If you missed it, you can read about her work in ROOM 2.26.
Writing always takes courage; we hope you’ll lend yours to our upcoming issue.
We welcome: Essays and Memoirs in any language*. Max. 1,500 words
Creative Writing | Written in English. Max. 2,000 words
Poetry | Written, audio, video, and/or mixed media
Community Projects
Books For Potential Review
The submission deadline for ROOM 6.26 is May 6, 2026 Continue reading Deadline Approaching: ROOM 6.26 is Open for Submissions
VOICES FROM ROOM – Solace for Survival
Episode 51 of Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action, “Solace for Survival with Alexandra Woods” is now available wherever you listen to podcasts.
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Alexandra Woods, whose work operates at the intersections of the clinical, the personal, and the natural. As an analyst and a writer, Woods derives solace and inspiration from nature and activism. She explores the tension between how we connect and disconnect from the world around us, both environmentally and politically. Negotiating joy and obligation, Woods details how critical rest can galvanize future direct action and connection.
“We allow the future to come at us in tiny doses. Do we want to follow the news? Can we hold on to our internal compasses? Will they spin out of control? Is it even possible to set a course?”
— Alexandra Woods, “Winter Into Spring,” ROOM 6.25
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What It Takes to Sustain Significant Relationships
Click Here to Read: What It Takes to Sustain Significant Relationships: The art of mutuality, and how it takes two to know one by Kenneth Silvestri on his A Wider Lens Substack on April 4. 2026.
Love between a couple among sunset in parangtritis beach Yogyakarta Image: Decha Aulia. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
From Oppression to Freedom Back to Oppression
Stories on psychotherapy and technology from The American Psychoanalyst
Click Here to Read: Holding the Frame in an Era of Corporate Care: Clinicians share their views on practice management companies By Linda Michaels on The American Psychoalyst website.
Click here to Read: Algorithmic Defenses Against Thinking: The rise of UberTherapy By Elizabeth Cotton on The American Psychoalyst website.
21st century robots. Seen from the future, they will just look cute. Image: Ralf Steinberger from Milan, Berlin + Munich, Italy + Germany Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
CFS “Cain is Killing Abel: Intergenerational Killing Fields” 4/30
PSYCHOANALYTIC BROOKLYN: “Cain is Killing Abel: Intergenerational Killing Fields” Presenter: Tina Marie Dale, LSCSW Discussant: Kimberly S. Kleinman, MS, LCSW Thursday, April 30, 2026 8:00-9:30pm EDT Online via Zoom 1.5 CEUs Available
This paper will present clinical material in the form of brief narratives and vignettes while posing difficult questions for the analytic community to consider. I hope that listeners can consider some, if not most, of these questions on a personal professional level. A key question is whether emotional and professional confraternization occurs within the analytic community. Throughout this paper, when I use the term confratricide, I am referring to the emotional and professional killing off of colleagues, rather than literal physical killing. What is our part when such problems occur within psychoanalytic centers, institutes, and larger organizations? Do we participate by increasing splitting? Do we address the difficulties at deeper levels, asking what causes the collegial splitting? Do all members at the local, national, and international levels participate in confratricide in varying degrees? Continue reading CFS “Cain is Killing Abel: Intergenerational Killing Fields” 4/30