Lynne Tillman: Caring for a Mother You Don't Love
Lynne Tillman discusses her recent book Mothercare. In one of the few examples of Lynne writing about her own life, Mothercare documents the period when her mother develops and then sadly passes from ...
23 Mar 202355min
Malcolm Harris: How California Eugenicists Shaped the Modern World
In this episode Malcolm Harris describes the interconnected histories of eugenics and American capitalism in California throughout the 19th and 20th Century as well as how this history shapes tech an...
14 Mar 202353min
Natasha Lennard: Jane’s Revenge and Reproductive Rights After Roe
In this episode Natasha Lennard reports on the story of two reproductive rights activists who are being charged under a law intended to protect abortion clinics, as well as the broader implications th...
8 Mar 202354min
Mark Spencer: #StopCopCity is a Health Issue
Mark Spencer updates us on the struggle to stop the Atlanta Police Foundation building the largest police training facility in the US in Weelaunee Forest, Atlanta. He also explains why ‘health’ is a u...
28 Feb 202344min
Nadia Abu El-Haj: A Brief History of Militarism, Psychiatry and PTSD
Nadia Abu El Haj describes the history of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and what it reveals about psychiatry, American imperialism and anti-war politics. She tracks PTSD’s shifting status in medical ...
14 Feb 20231h 15min
James Wilt: How Capitalists Caused an Alcohol Health Crisis
In this episode James Wilt explains how alcohol corporations have caused and profited from a health crisis relating to drinking. He explains how capitalist accumulation and expansion has caused a heal...
7 Feb 20231h 5min
M.E. O'Brien and Alex Colston: Parapraxis Issue 1 and the Mistakes of Psychoanalysis
Founded by friend of the show, Hannah Zeavin, Parapraxis is a new magazine about psychoanalysis with a commitment to uncovering the psychosocial dimensions of life. In this conversation Alex Colston a...
31 Jan 20231h 4min
Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi: Psychoanalysis in Palestine
Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi discuss what it means to practice psychoanalysis in Palestine under constant attack from the settler colonial project of the Israeli state. They explain how Palestinian ...
24 Jan 20231h 29min
