A sketchbook for Analytic Action SERIOUSLY NOW BY HATTIE MYERS [4] SPEAKING UP ABOUT TRUMP, AN EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME BY BANDY X. LEE [7] A BATHROOM WITHOUT A SEAT BY YITZI KATZ [12] THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF BORDERS BY SIMON WESTERN [15] WOOLF AT THE DOOR BY DANA SINOPOLI [19] MY COUNTRY, MY SELF: SEPARATION, IDENTITY, AND DISSONANCE BY COLINE COVINGTON [21] COMING TO THE WEST BY NATASHA KURCHANOVA [28] PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION, SOROS, THE FEDERAL RESERVE, AND YOU BY CAROLYN ELLMAN [31] WHITE LETHALITY/ WHITE LEGIBILITY BY MICHELLE FINE [36] A COLLEGE PHILOSOPHY LESSON BY BRENT MATHENY [39] IN GOOD FAITH BY ELIZABETH EVERT [43] IMAGINING THE OTHER BY KERRY LEDDY MALAWISTA [46] PLAYING FOR REAL BY EUGENE MAHON [48] BOOK REVIEW: ENGAGING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE, PSYCHOANALYTIC AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES. EDITED BY SALLY WEINTROBE, LONDON, ROUTLEDGE, 2013. REVIEWED BY RICHARD B. GROSE [51] ARTIST: ANNE SHERWOOD PUNDYK [27] Editor in Chief Liaisons Hattie Myers Chris Christian, PhD Division 39 Art Director Graphic Designer Coline Covington, PhD Mafe Izaguirre International Dialogue Initiative Anna Fishzon, PhD Managing Editors Das Unbehagen Leon Anisfeld Ken Fuchsman, EdD Gila Ashtor International Psychohistory Association Phyllis Beren Elizabeth C. Evert William W. 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She is co-author of Wearing My Tutu of Analytical Psychology and the British Psychotherapy Immigrating to Canada at age 19, Kebbewar earned to Analysis, The Therapist in Mourning, and Who’s Behind Foundation and former chair of the British Psychoana- a degree in history from Concordia University before the Couch? She co-chairs the Washington Psychoanalytic lytic Council. She is a fellow of the International Dialogue becoming a graphic designer. He recently published Program, New Directions in Writing. Initiative (IDI), a think tank created to apply psychoana- a chapbook with JackPine Press entitled The Soap lytic concepts to understanding political conflict. She has of Aleppo. He is putting the final touches on his novel Dana Sinopoli, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and psy- written extensively on psychoanalysis and society, most The Bones of Aleppo. His chapbook is available for pur- choanalytic candidate in private practice in Philadelphia. recently Everyday Evils: A Psychoanalytic View of Evil chase at jackpinepress.com. She has been an outspoken critic of the current admin- and Morality (Routledge, 2016). She is in private practice istration. She authored a letter in response to the zero- in London. Her new book, For Goodness Sake: Bravery, Bandy X. Lee, MD, MDiv, is a forensic psychiatrist at Yale tolerance policy which, on behalf of the mental health Patriotism and Identity, will be published by Phoenix Pub- School of Medicine. She has consulted globally and na- community, was signed by over 21,000 people and 200 lishing House in 2020. tionally on violence prevention and prison reform. She has organizations and was delivered to the highest officials in an extensive publication record, including opinion-edito- all three branches of the US government. Carolyn S. Ellman, PhD, is a fellow at IPTAR and co-editor rials, peer-reviewed articles and chapters, and fifteen of several books: The Modern Freudians: Contempo- edited books including the New York Times bestseller The Simon Western, PhD, is president of ISPSO, adjunct rary Psychoanalytic Technique (Jason Aronson,1998); Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and professor at University College Dublin, and CEO of An- Omnipotent Fantasies and the Vulnerable Self: A New Mental Health Experts Assess a President (Macmillan, alytic-Network Coaching. His Advanced Coach Training Freudian Synthesis (Jason Aronson, 1997); and A New 2017). She has most recently authored the textbook program has a global footprint, using contemporary Freudian Synthesis: Clinical Process in the Next Gener- Violence (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019) and does clinical work psychoanalytic methods to develop leaders and help ation (Karnac, 2011). She has also written extensively on in correctional and public-sector settings. them adapt to the digital age. He is the author of Lead- envy, particularly among women. ership: A Critical Text (3rd ed., Sage, 2019), Global Eugene Mahon, MD, is a training and supervising Leadership Perspectives (Sage, 2018), and Coaching and Elizabeth Cutter Evert, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst in psychoanalyst at Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Mentoring: A Critical Text (Sage, 2017). private practice in New York City. She is on the clinical Training and Research. He has published three books faculty of IPTAR and is a director of their Clinical Center. —A Psychoanalytic Odyssey, Rensal the Redbit, and Polly Weissman is a mostly nonfiction writer who takes She is interested in questions of female development and Boneshop of the Heart—and numerous articles on psy- facts more seriously than is currently fashionable. She in the overlap between secular and religious experience. choanalysis. He practices in New York City. has published books for children and contributed to many textbooks. She is currently working on a novel about Michelle Fine, PhD, is distinguished professor of critical Brent Matheny is a student at Kenyon College and will be someone who keeps getting it wrong. psychology and gender/women’s studies at the Graduate graduating in the spring of 2019 with a bachelor's degree Center, CUNY; a founding member of the Public Science in philosophy. He recently presented a research project on Mafe Izaguirre is a New York-based Venezuelan visual Project at the Graduate Center; and author of recent book the possibility of and obligation for communication across artist, a graphic designer with twenty years of experience JUST Research in Contentious Times (Teachers College the American political divide at the Eastern Division meet- developing brand platforms, and an educator. For the Press, 2018). ing of the American Philosophical Association. Currently, last seven years she has led the strategic advisory firm, he is working on a thesis that expands this idea, thinking Simple 7 Design Lab, managing marketing and outreach Richard Grose, PhD, is an associate member of IPTAR, about it in the context of a Davidsonian theory of commu- for brands. In 2016, Izaguirre moved to New York to where he serves as secretary on the board of directors and nication through the lens of a feminist ethic of care. pursue her research developing “machines that can feel” teaches in the respecialization program. He is a member and to explore the creation of artifacts that mimic human of ROOM’s editorial board and a co-chair of the Room Natasha Kurchanova, PhD, is a candidate at IPTAR. senses and consciousness. She is currently an artist Roundtable. He has a private practice in psychotherapy Her doctorate is in art history. Apart from studying psy- member of the Long Island City Artist Association (LICA), and psychoanalysis in Manhattan. choanalysis and working as a clinician, she contributes the Fat Cat Fab Lab, a tech mentor at Mouse Inc, and the reviews and interviews with artists for such publications as Bronx based nonprofit DreamYard Project. In 2017, in col- Yitzi Katz, LCSW, maintains a private practice in Jeru- Studio International, The Candidate Journal, The Burling- laboration with members of the IPTAR community, Izagu- salem, Israel, and treats survivors and perpetrators of ton Magazine, CAA Reviews, Bomb Magazine, Art Jour- irre created ROOM. Website: www.mafeizaguirre.com sexual abuse at an agency in Israel. Prior to relocating nal, and other publications. She is on the editorial board Email: [email protected] to Israel, Yitzi had cofounded the Chicago Trauma Col- of The Candidate Journal. lective and worked extensively with survivors of trauma in the child welfare system in Chicago. Yitzi is a lecturer Kerry Malawista, PhD, a training and supervising ana- in the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA) lyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society, with essays and a graduate of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Zone 3, (CCP) program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Washingtonian Magazine, Intima, Huffington Post, and analytic-room.com CONTRIBUTE TO ROOM ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action was created in 2017 in response to a bewildering and frightening political reality. This virtual analytic space is dedicated to providing ongoing room for authentic and diverse thought. We welcome clinical, theoretical, political, and philosophical essays, as well as poetry, stories, artwork, photography, and announcements. 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