ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action

11/12/2025

ROOM 10.25 is out now.

This issue gathers voices from across continents, each writing from a split screen—between devastation and daily life, between the personal and the political, between language and what exceeds it.

With contributions from Dr. Mohamed Omran Abu Shawish, Dr. A*z a-Din, Heba Al-Turk, Dana Amir, Patrick Cole, Caleb Cobra Cornell, Karim G. Dajani, Mira Erlich-Ginor, Eiman Hussein, Susan Cortilet Jones, Celeste Kelly, Irwin Kula, Oleksandra Kurbala, JT Mikulka, Sonni Mun, Jyoti M. Rao, Dr. Helena Vissing, and Andrea Luka Zimmerman; poetry by Nan Cohen and Natasha Kinsella; and art by Joyce Pommer and Cynthia Sparrenberger, this issue illuminates the space where speech meets silence, hope meets despair, and rupture meets repair.

Read or download ROOM 10.25 at analytic-room.com

11/12/2025

We are thrilled and deeply honored to share that ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action has been named a recipient of The Sigourney Award, one of the most prestigious recognitions in the field of psychoanalysis and mental health.

This extraordinary honor validates what we’ve built together since 2016: a living, cyclical ecosystem where individual expression evolves into collective dialogue and generates real-world change.

The Sigourney Award recognizes not only what we’ve accomplished, but the uniquely analytic and democratic community space we’ve created—founded on the understanding that genuine change emerges from the freedom and safety to be heard and known anew.

Read the full press release at the link in our bio.

11/11/2025

We are elated and honored to share this news!

Meet The Sigourney Award-2025 Recipients!

A notable panel of anonymous judges evaluated a broad spectrum of work from 11 countries and selected four bodies of work most closely aligned with Sigourney’s vision.

Please join us in commending The Sigourney Award-2025 recipients' work (Alphabetical order, top left clockwise) including: Dana Amir, PhD (Haifa, Israel); Calibán, Latin American Journal of Psychoanalysis (Montevideo, Uruguay); Siri Hustvedt, PhD (New York, USA); and ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action (New York, USA).

The Sigourney Award Trust Co-Trustees Robin Deutsch, PhD, Analyst, and Michael Harrington, JD, Attorney, applaud the trailblazing work and offer thanks to all who shared their own incredible work for consideration.

Visit www.sigourneyaward.org to learn about each recipient’s extraordinary work advancing psychoanalytic principles and thought.

Applications open March 1st for The Sigourney Award-2026.

International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)
EFPP European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Federación Psicoanalítica de América Latina (FEPAL)

11/05/2025

ROOM 2.26 is open for submissions! We seek writing at the intersection of the personal and the political, work interested in both the world and the mind.

Send in your writing:
https://analytic-room.com/submit/

10/31/2025

We are thrilled to share that ROOM author, Ipek S. Burnett ruminates on democracy, poetry, and liberty in her essay for The American Psychoanalyst - TAP

Read her work in TAP:
https://americanpsychoanalyst.substack.com/p/diving-into-the-myth?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=4769kl&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Read Ipek's work on the news cyle and hope in ROOM:
https://analytic-room.com/essays/hurricane-after-hurricane-by-ipek-s-burnett/

Hurricane after Hurricane by Ipek S. Burnett is an introspective look at how we cope with climate crises and the unspoken psychological costs of inaction.

10/30/2025

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Xiaomeng Qiao, an analyst-in-training, writer, and game developer. Qiao examines the potential and the limitations of AI usage in analysis, self-understanding, and video game development. Qiao's work explores where generative technology can strike a harmony with analysis and where video games can mirror or enrich clinical work.

Listen here:
https://analytic-room.com/podcast/

10/21/2025

Cara Cruickshank sheds a critical light on in ROOM 6.25. Voices Unveiled provides free online education to women in Afghanistan, facilitating access to learning, mental health resources, and community building.

Read more on their vital work: https://ow.ly/n33g50XerGZ

10/20/2025

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Kissu Taffere, a licensed clinical social worker whose clinical focus centers on women in BIPOC and immigrant communities. Taffere was laid off from a refugee resettlement organization shortly after the Trump administration came into office. She unpacks the roles of silence on the cultural and individual level, highlighting where it can be used to protect those who are vulnerable and where it is used in an effort to protect authoritarian and colonial power.

Listen Here: https://analytic-room.com/podcast/

10/17/2025

Iris Fodor urges us to know our history as we face our future in "Red Scare at City College" in ROOM 6.25

Read the full piece here:
https://analytic-room.com/essays/red-scare-at-city-college-by-iris-fodor/