ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action

04/30/2026

Bia Roy reflects on writing, the self, and the distances and proximities of caste in ROOM 2.26.

Read her full piece:
https://ow.ly/nhZW50YS6M8

04/29/2026

Big conflicts don't change through big gestures. Sometimes it starts with one honest exchange.

Karim Dajani, Eyal Rozmarin & Lord Alderdice on psychoanalysis and intractable conflict — May 3.

Register: bit.ly/4u6JvUe

04/29/2026

As we continue to trace the margins in our writing and our world, we want to hear from you. How can we understand the personal and political within the self? Within the nation? Within the therapeutic relationship? If you have answers, or just more questions, consider sending in your work to ROOM 6.26.

Submit Here: https://analytic-room.com/submit/

04/27/2026

What can psychoanalysis offer in the face of intractable conflict?

Lord John Alderdice argues that lasting resolution requires moving past rational-actor models toward something deeper — the sacred values and emotional forces that actually drive human behavior.

On May 3, that framework comes to life in Making Room for Change, a conversation between Lord Alderdice, Palestinian psychoanalyst Karim Dajani, and Israeli psychoanalyst Eyal Rozmarin.

Essay: https://analytic-room.com/essays/beyond-reason-by-john-alderdice/
Register: bit.ly/4u6JvUe

04/24/2026

Kanika Mehrotra writes on psychoanalysis and the need to hold the potential for change in ROOM 2.26.

Read More: https://analytic-room.com/essays/the-shared-language-of-unmaking-by-kanika-mehrotra/

04/23/2026

“We are in a zone where we need to make the state of mind and the context that’s necessary to do the thinking.”

May 3: Rozmarin, Dajani & Alderdice on psychoanalysis + intractable conflict
Register here: bit.ly/4sXwYCj

04/22/2026

We remember Sara Mansfield Taber, whose insight and warmth left a lasting mark on ROOM. She helped establish We Are The Light, amplifying women’s voices worldwide.

Her work lives on in our pages and hearts. 🕊️

Sara Mansfield Taber was a writer, teacher, and social worker whose books, essays, and writing workshops helped people transform experience into resilience and storytelling.

04/17/2026

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Dr. Karim Dajani and Dr. Eyal Rozmarin, who began a correspondence through ROOM as Palestinian and Israeli analysts striving to comprehend Israel and Palestine and one another. Together, Dajani and Rozmarin have carried their difficult and vital conversation through the pages of ROOM, into a video, "Speaking of Home: An Intimate Exchange on Israel-Palestine," and a forthcoming book. In their conversation with Isaac and Aneta, they unpack how they have been both supported and attacked merely for talking to one another. From a social experiment to a series of letters to an intimate piece of humanity and identity, this exchange holds the vulnerability and electricity needed to know and confront our current world.

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

04/16/2026

“What we need to do is actually change the way our collective is structured...That’s our job, to rearrange the collectivity.”

May 3: Eyal Rozmarin & Karim Dajani join John Alderdice on psychoanalysis and intractable conflict.

Register: https://bit.ly/4cQGiBt

04/15/2026

In “Engaged Defenders for Democracy,” Kathryn Pollak shares how a post-2024 election email thread became a nationwide grassroots movement.

Learn how Engaged Defenders for Democracy grew from a small email chain into a nationwide grassroots activism movement promoting empathy, civic engagement, and nonviolent protest.

04/14/2026

Room: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action turns 10 this year (and won The Sigourney Award-2025). What started as a small act of defiance has become a worldwide community across 160 countries.

ROOM’s editors are looking for writing born from the collision between what’s happening in the world and what’s happening inside you. Send them what you’re carrying. Essays, memoirs, creative writing, poetry, and community projects are all welcome.

ROOM welcomes:
Essays and Memoirs in any language*. Max. 1,500 words
Creative Writing | Written in English. Max. 2,000 words
Poetry | Written, audio, video, and/or mixed media
Community Projects
Books For Potential Review

Submissions for ROOM 6.26 are open through May 6, 2026.

Visit: https://tinyurl.com/ysw247wf

04/09/2026

"We are it. We cannot hope for help from the outside. There is no umbrella of world order that is going to help us. The world order is pitting us against each other and using us. And we, I think, need to turn around from these exploitations and projections. This is it."

On May 3, Eyal Rozmarin and Karim Dajani join John Alderdice for a conversation on the role psychoanalysis can play in addressing intractable conflict—within our analytic institutions and in the broader world.

Register here: bit.ly/4czi0g5