Rendering Unconscious episode 328.

Jason Royal, PhD is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst practicing in New York City, where he works with adolescents, and adults. He is adjunct supervising faculty in the clinical psychology doctoral program at City College, supervises at the Greene Clinic, and has taught seminars in training programs at the Greene Clinic, Pratt Institute, and the Pulsion Institute. His writing has appeared in Psychoanalytic Psychology, Division/Review, The Psychoanalytic Review, and The Threepenny Review. In 2016, he set the Group for Independent Formation into motion, as one of the orienting structures of his analytic training. He has a long relationship with music, primarily as a pianist, and in a previous life earned a doctoral degree in music composition.

Matthew Oyer, PhD is a licensed psychologist and psychoanalyst. He is a Co-Director at the Greene Clinic, Assistant Clinical Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine, and Adjunct Supervising Faculty in the clinical psychology doctoral program at City College.  He completed his doctoral training at the City University of New York and his doctoral internship at New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NYPSI) and Mount Sinai Medical Center. With a small group of others, Dr. Oyer created and implemented a program of independent psychoanalytic training through which he continues to pursue lifelong formation.  He has experience working in a wide range of settings, from inpatient psychiatric units and intensive hospital-based outpatient programs, to therapeutic communities, to substance abuse treatment facilities, to university counseling centers and outpatient mental health clinics. Dr. Oyer is a board member of the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis and is on the editorial board of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Dr. Oyer contributed two pieces, “Wounded Dramatization: Bataille, Hysteria, Psychoanalysis” and “Notes on Kairos and the Psychoanalytic Act,” to Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives vols. 1 & 2 (Trapart Books, 2024).

The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond (Routledge, 2025) edited by Vanessa Sinclair, Elisabeth Punzi and Myriam Sauer is now available. Be sure to check out this landmark volume!

Rendering Unconscious Podcast received the Gradiva Award for Digital Media from the National Association for the Advancement for Psychoanalysis (NAAP).

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Rendering Unconscious podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden who works remotely with people all over the world. Follow at  Instagram | TikTok | Blusky

Dr. Sinclair is the author of Things Happen (Trapart Books, 2024), The Pathways of the Heart (Trapart Books, 2021), Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2021) and Switching Mirrors (Trapart Books, 2016).

Dr. Sinclair is the editor of Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives vols. 1 & 2 (Trapart Books, 2024) and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (Routledge, 2023).

She co-edited the books The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond (Routledge, 2025) with Elisabeth Punzi and Myriam Sauer, Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy (Trapart Books, 2021) with Elisabeth Punzi, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) with Manya Steinkoler, and The Fenris Wolf, vol 9 (Trapart Books, 2017) and The Fenris Wolf, vol 11 (Trapart Books, 2022) with Carl Abrahamsson.

Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. Follow him at: Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Substack

The song at the end of the episode is “Carry the news, keep talking” from the album “We reign supreme” by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy. Available at Pete Murphy’s Bandcamp Page

Our music is also available at Spotify and other streaming services.

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