RU62: Rendering Molly Merson Unconscious, Psychoanalytic Therapist on Interrogating Whiteness

Today's guest is Molly Merson, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a BART- accessible practice in Berkeley, CA. She has an MA in Social Clinical Psychology from New College of California, a degree that placed an emphasis on the ways in which constructs of race, power, gender, socio-economics, and sociopolitical environments impact individual and community identity, well-being, and health. She is also a candidate in psychoanalysis at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. https://www.mollymerson.com Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart, 2019): store.trapart.net/details/00000 We discuss the 40th Annual Spring Meeting of Division 39 – Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA), March 18-21, 2020, New York City: division39springmeeting.net And refer to the work of Lara Sheehi: http://www.renderingunconscious.org/psychoanalysis/dr-lara-sheehi-psychoanalytic-practitioner-scholar-activist/ The conference Psychoanalysis to Come: Community and Culture, July 24-26, 2020, Copenhagen is also discussed: http://dasunbehagen.org/event/du-international-conference-psychoanalysis-come-community-culture/ As is: Griffin Hansbury: https://griffinhansbury.com/bio/ Jeremiah's Vanishing New York: http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com Orna Guralnik: http://www.ornaguralnik.com/couples-therapy-docuseries Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. Episodes are also created from lectures given at various international conferences. www.renderingunconscious.org Please support the podcast at: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be found at: Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud Please visit the About page for links to all of these sites: www.renderingunconscious.org/about/ For more, please visit the following websites: www.renderingunconscious.org www.drvanessasinclair.net store.trapart.net The song at the end of the episode is from Mementeros, available on CD, as well as DVD: https://store.trapart.net/details/00100 Mementeros is also available to view via Vimeo on Demand: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/mementeros Art by Vanessa Sinclair from Mementeros series: https://store.trapart.net/item/4