Rendering Unconscious celebrates 200 episodes! With Dr. Lara Sheehi taking over as host and interviewing Dr. Vanessa Sinclair!

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Dr. Lara Sheehi is a psychologist, psychoanalytic practitioner, scholar, activist, and President-elect of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (SPPP), Div. 39 of the American Psychological Association. Her new book is Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge 2021). Follow her at Twitter and Instagram

Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works internationally, and the host of Rendering Unconscious Podcast. She is the author of The Pathways of the Heart (Trapart Books, 2021), Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2020) and Switching Mirrors (Trapart Books, 2016). She is the editor of Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: A Freudian-Lacanian Lens, forthcoming from Routledge (2022), as well as Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019), and co-editor of Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy (Trapart Books, 2021) with Elisabeth Punzi, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2018) with Manya Steinkoler and The Fenris Wolf, vol 9 (Trapart Books, 2017) with Carl Abrahamsson. Follow her at Instagram / Twitter / TikTok

Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, work, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more.

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The song at the end of the episode is “Primary power of sound” from the album “Follow my voice” by Vanessa Sinclair and Per Åhlund available digitally on Bandcamp from Highbrow Lowlife and as a limited edition CD from Trapart Editions.

Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast.

If you would like a transcript of this episode please feel free to email me.

Image: Vanessa having fun at Coney Island. Photo by Carl Abrahamsson