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EDITORIAL
Struck Anew

Shock occasions change. Five years ago ROOM flashed into being as an immediate response to the 2016 US election. Psychoanalysts who had never written before felt compelled to write.       

ROOM has remained a participatory community platform, grounded in a psychoanalytic understanding of how change happens. Each issue archives a new moment. Each is a “working-through” of that which has already passed.   

But now we are struck anew. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine occurred during the final weeks of production of this anniversary issue. Still, the questions posed by the contributors in ROOM 2.22 are eerily prescient and speak collectively for all of us. Each looks toward a future none can envision.

ESSAYS
Jeanne Parr Lemkau – Remembering Lydia 
Fang Duan – A Celebrity Family Saga: Psychotherapy Shatters the Chinese-Speaking World
Ryan LaMothe – Hope in the Anthropocene Age 
Jorgelina Corbatta – The Day I Learned I Was a Woman of Color
Kyrie Mason – It’s History
Fang Duan – Bringing Psychoanalysis to China: An Interview with Arlene Richards
Christina Nadler – (Re)Locating Analytic Space 
Loren Sobel – Circling
Shelley Rockwell – Speaking the Impossible

POETRY

Elizabeth Kandall – The bird and the hour

Abdulmueed Balogun – When a Child Wakes

Ashley Renselaer – The Way of It

ART

Kelin Perry

Liliana Zavaleta

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ROOM 2.22 Roundtable
Sunday, April 3 at 12:00 pm EST

As so many writers in this issue describe, we live in a world of cascading crises. Since the 2.22 issue was completed, war has erupted in Ukraine, while widespread famine in Afghanistan continues, and democracy is under threat all over the world. With three authors from Room 2.22, we will talk about our lives during this time, focusing on finding guidance in the poetry of extreme experience and in understanding the challenges of fighting despair while preserving a capacity for hope and care. 

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ROOM 6.22
Open Call for Submissions
Deadline: May 1, 2022

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