ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action, 2025
/Brilliantly curated and edited, ROOM is a global and free digital forum and platform that has illuminated and forged new connections between psychoanalysis and the most pressing social, political, and cultural issues facing the contemporary world. Led by Hattie Myers, PhD, co-founder and Editor-in-Chief, ROOM’s wide-ranging collection of essays, creative writing, memoirs, poetry, art, and community projects place a psychoanalytic lens on contemporary challenges and extends psychoanalytic action into new modalities and the public sphere.
ROOM, produced collaboratively by more than 30 volunteers, serves as a valued tool for education and public scholarship, having evolved beyond its original format to produce films, events, and collaborative educational programming. By working on multiple levels, psychoanalytic action within ROOM is enhanced through the inclusion of visual artists whose contributions bring nonverbal and affective power to each publication. The featured artists’ statements not only illuminate their own practices but also articulate the synergy between their visual work and the analytic content of each issue.
Conceived of just days after the 2016 U.S. presidential election as an agent of community building, ROOM now reaches readers in more than 160 countries. Each issue of ROOM offers a window through which readers experience how culture and politics impact us personally, and how our psychology affects our environment and political reality. ROOM, published three times a year, is available free online and in print for purchase. Following each issue, an international roundtable allows readers and authors to deepen the conversation together. Additionally, ROOM produces a biweekly podcast featuring contributors to the magazine.