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Couched

Dr. Almas (Ally) Merchant, Dr. Billie Pivnick & Dr. Romy Reading, Produced by Hangar Studios, NYC

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Society & Culture

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Frequency: 1 episode/86d. Total Eps: 28

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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06/07/2026
#81
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05/07/2026
#61
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28/06/2026
#95
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27/06/2026
#85
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27/06/2026
#90
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26/06/2026
#42
🇺🇸 USA - socialSciences
22/06/2026
#94
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21/06/2026
#68
🇺🇸 USA - socialSciences
20/06/2026
#69
🇺🇸 USA - socialSciences
17/06/2026
#85

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Beyond Surveillance and Criminalization : Sex Work, Fetish, and Feminist Action as Care

Season 5 · Episode 1

jeudi 4 avril 2024 • Duration 35:31

Join us for this eye-opening conversation between Yin Q and Dr. Katie Gentile. Our guests challenge common preconceptions about sex work, kink, and reproductive justice. Through academic rigor and poetic expression, they draw us into unique perspectives on sex worker advocacy and feminism.

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Dismantling Anti-Black Logics: Creating Alternative forms of Knowledge and Storytelling

Season 4 · Episode 4

vendredi 23 février 2024 • Duration 36:20

Join us for a heartfelt conversation between psychoanalyst, Chanda D. Griffin and choreographers, Hilary Brown-Istrefi and Briana Brown-Tipley. Our guests share their embodied and scholarly knowledge about anti-blackness and creativity. They inspire and challenge us to think beyond the confines of white supremacist structures and invite us into new imaginaries.

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Remembering Winnicott: A Graphic Memoirist and a Psychoanalyst Discuss Creativity in Writing and Psychotherapy

Season 2 · Episode 5

jeudi 4 mars 2021 • Duration 37:34

Join us for this inspiring conversation with Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow and award-winning graphic novelist Alison Bechdel and esteemed psychologist, psychoanalyst, and writer, Dr. Ken Corbett, as they discuss their personal reflections on the work of renowned British psychoanalyst, Donald W. Winnicott. Our guests consider how co-creating meaning can help us feel vitality in living and as we face death. Through personal reflection and playful interaction they share with us the lived experience of creative work.

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Facing Fossil Fuels' Effects: Psychoanalysts and Climate Activists Confront the Climate Crisis

Season 2 · Episode 4

jeudi 28 janvier 2021 • Duration 37:12

Listen in on this eye-opening conversation with internationally renowned author and climate activist, Bill McKibben, and esteemed psychologist, psychoanalyst, and scholar, Dr. Donna Orange, as they discuss the urgency of awakening to the realities of climate change. Our guests wrestle with the stark uncertainties of our planet’s future and encourage us to bravely face the shocking effects of climate change on our way of life. While bringing to light sobering realities, they also offer a sense of hope, purpose, and next steps.

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Moving Conversations: What Can Psychoanalysts and Choreographers Learn from One Another?

Season 2 · Episode 3

vendredi 20 novembre 2020 • Duration 44:35

Listen in on this enlivening conversation with internationally renowned choreographer, Bill T. Jones, and esteemed psychoanalyst, Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies, and Dean of Humanities at Rutgers University, Dr. Michelle Stephens, as they discuss the role of the social world in their work. Our guests tackle a range of topics related to race, trauma, and the pandemic while shedding light on how they navigate the tension between respect for “the canon” while invoking the political. In the process they offer passionate insights into our experience as humans.

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Braving the U.S. Election

Season 2 · Episode 2

jeudi 29 octobre 2020 • Duration 38:54

Listen in on this conversation with renowned psychohistorian, Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, and esteemed psychoanalyst/political commentator, Dr. Andrew Samuels, as they discuss the upcoming U.S. election. Our guests tackle a range of topics related to the current political storms. They call attention to the ways that human psychology and passion inform and intersect with the political. Their insights provide steady ground for turbulent times.

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What’s Systemic about Racism?

Season 2 · Episode 1

mercredi 14 octobre 2020 • Duration 41:33

Listen in on this enlightening conversation with internationally-renowned philosopher and professor, Dr. Judith Butler and esteemed critical social theorist/psychoanalyst, Dr. Patricia Clough as they discuss systemic racism. Our guests offer a clear and understandable explanation of what differentiates systemic racism from individual prejudice. They also call attention to the ways that COVID has disproportionately impacted people of color and placed a powerful demand on us to begin a process of mourning. This episode is sure to raise listeners’ awareness and understanding of this pressing issue.

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Border Crisis: A Psychoanalyst and Filmmaker Confront Family Separation

Season 1 · Episode 5

mercredi 1 juillet 2020 • Duration 36:38

Listen in to the inspiring conversation with psychologist/psychoanalyst, Dr. Spyros Orfanos, and award-winning documentary filmmaker, Ellen Goosenberg Kent. Our guests explore the intersections of their work with refugees, asylum seekers, and those enduring family separation. Both take you into the heart of their encounters with this difficult issue. This episode is sure to evoke empathy and desire for action in the face of brutal injustice.

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Adolescents Falling: What Grownups Don't See

Season 1 · Episode 4

mercredi 17 juin 2020 • Duration 22:54

Listen in to our continuing conversation with psychologist/psychoanalyst, Dr. Ken Corbett, and

award-winning literary fiction writer, Susan Choi. Our guests take us behind the scenes of the

stories told in their recent books. Through spirited discussion they expand our perspectives on

the ways in which adults can and do fail adolescents in their attempts to navigate the

complexities of sexuality, race, gender, and aggression. This episode is sure to evoke timely

reflections about the politics of identity and psychological struggle.

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Adolescent Outsider Stories

Season 1 · Episode 3

mercredi 10 juin 2020 • Duration 28:24

Esteemed psychologist and psychoanalyst, Dr. Ken Corbett, and award-winning literary fiction writer, Susan Choi, in an exploration of each other’s work, discuss how feeling like an outsider in adolescence can deeply affect choice. Through their writing, they illuminate how the struggle to repair a damaged sense of self can go terribly awry and lead to acts of betrayal, trauma, and violence. The guests bring compassion and insight to the turbulence of teenage life and to the desire to belong. We invite you to listen in and discover novel ways of seeing yourself and others.

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