Surviving Institutional Failures: Expanding the Psychoanalytic Canon
From Couched by Dr. Almas (Ally) Merchant, Dr. Billie Pivnick & Dr. Romy Reading, Produced by Hangar Studios, NYC
April 2, 2025 · 48 min · Season 5 · Episode 3
About this episode
Foluke Taylor and Jyoti Rao discuss the toxicity of institutional stasis and the importance of grief and grievance in a poetic and incisive conversation.
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
People in this episode
Guests: Foluke Taylor, Jyoti Rao
Topics covered
- institutional failures
- psychoanalysis
- grief
- grievance
- inclusivity
- interdisciplinarity
- intimacy
Keywords
- toxic institutions
- alternative paths
- conversation
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