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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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

Cécile Evans’ performance ‘Sprung a Leak’, seen in Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany.

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