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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
  • 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
  • Surviving Institutional Failures: Expanding the Psychoanalytic Canon

    Surviving Institutional Failures: Expanding the Psychoanalytic Canon
    Apr 2 2025
    Join us for this poetic and incisive conversation between Foluke Taylor and Jyoti Rao. Our guests explore the toxicity of institutional stasis and the subversive urgency of grief and grievance. Through their conversation they model inclusivity, interdisciplinarity, and intimacy offering us an alternative path through.

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    48 mins
  • Group Psychology: The Promise and Perils of Togetherness

    Group Psychology: The Promise and Perils of Togetherness
    Nov 21 2024
    Join us for this inspiring conversation between Dr. Francisco Gonzalez and Dr. George Makari. Our guests explore the impact of group dynamics on both individuals’ lives and in our collective experiences. Their in-depth analysis helps us to understand how the contradictory experiences of belonging and exclusion continually shape and reshape us.

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    40 mins

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