Couched
Dr. Almas (Ally) Merchant, Dr. Billie Pivnick & Dr. Romy Reading, Produced by Hangar Studios, NYC
4.5from 40 ratings
- 28
- Episodes
- 1
- Transcribed
- 40
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Couched
Couched is a podcast series that lets you in on what leading cultural influencers and psychoanalysts are thinking about society today. We will feature conversations with artists, scientists, and change-makers about our current political climate, social justice, and our struggles to find sanity in an increasingly uncertain world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Dr. Almas (Ally) Merchant, Dr. Billie Pivnick & Dr. Romy Reading, Produced by Hangar Studios, NYC
- Category
- science · science · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 28 Feb 2020
- Latest episode
- 26 Jun 2026
Latest episodes
1 of 28 episodes have a transcript.
26 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Using the Abolitionist Imaginary to Create: Choreographing a Habitable Life through Movement, Storytelling, and Activism
24 Apr 2026
Dismantling Structural Constraints: Challenging the "Punishment Bureaucracy” and Facism in Psychoanalysis
13 Nov 2025
Bringing the Unthought Asian-American Subject to Mind: Cultivating Concern and Care in the Socio-Clinical Space
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Using the Abolitionist Imaginary to Create: Choreographing a Habitable Life through Movement, Storytelling, and Activism
Published 26 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So I've always believed that. And then my community gave me optimism. And I know that optimism can be a very challenging world in such a daunting environment, right? The optimism can oftentimes feel silly. It could really feel cynical in a way. But the way I view optimism that was given to me is that it's not void of reality. It's not pretending like things are not around you, but it's knowing that you can change the conditions. And so my optimism is very real. It is very realistic and it does not always feel good, right? And so I think somewhere in how I was brought up, my community, the optimism that they gave me, knowing that our voice could change things, knowing that the community could come together to change things, that's what started me off to not letting this idea that the systems were not built for us, not letting that overwhelm me or just freeze my ability to do things in a way. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 28 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 12 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 29 / 100
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- 25
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- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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