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Couched

Couched

By: Dr. Almas (Ally) Merchant Dr. Billie Pivnick & Dr. Romy Reading Produced by Hangar Studios NYC
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 Couched is a podcast series that lets you in on what leading cultural influencers and psychoanalysts are thinking about society today. We will feature conversations with artists, scientists, and change-makers about our current political climate, social justice, and our struggles to find sanity in an increasingly uncertain world.

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Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, 2020 Science Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Dismantling Structural Constraints: Challenging the "Punishment Bureaucracy” and Facism in Psychoanalysis

    Dismantling Structural Constraints: Challenging the "Punishment Bureaucracy” and Facism in Psychoanalysis
    Apr 24 2026
    Join us for this stirring conversation with Dr. Carter Carter and Alec Karakatsanis. Our guests peel back the curtain and inspire with a paradigm-shifting conversation on how they wrest life from institutions and build communities for themselves and others. By exposing the limits to our imagination when we adhere to the counterintuitive logics of institutionalization, our guests challenge us to think beyond the status quo.

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    49 mins
  • Bringing the Unthought Asian-American Subject to Mind: Cultivating Concern and Care in the Socio-Clinical Space

    Bringing the Unthought Asian-American Subject to Mind: Cultivating Concern and Care in the Socio-Clinical Space
    Nov 13 2025

    Join us for this illuminating conversation with Drs. Mary Kim Brewster, David Eng, and Shinhee Han. Our guests confront the dangerous myths of yellow peril and the model minority in the context of negated geo-political histories. They encourage us to imagine the Asian American subject’s relationality as both “Asian” and “American” and as a necessary condition towards repair and recognition.


    Episode References


    A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia - David Eng & Shinhee Han


    Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic LIves of Asian Americans - David Eng & Shinhee Han


    Reparations and the Human - David Eng


    Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974 - 1989


    Caucasia - Danzy Senna


    Joan Wallach Scott


    Donald W. Winnicott - Hate in the Countertransference

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    52 mins
  • Reconfiguring Transitional Space: Queer Negativity, Trans Imaginaries, and Impossible Bodies

    Reconfiguring Transitional Space: Queer Negativity, Trans Imaginaries, and Impossible Bodies
    Jul 17 2025

    Join us for this timely truth-telling conversation with multi-medium artist Kris Grey and author and psychoanalyst, Griffin Hansbury. Our guests crack open the delusions of binary gender and hyper-normativity, bringing forth expansive modes of being and thinking. This episode invites all to experience the pleasure and potency of nuanced subversion and non-conformity.



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    53 mins
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