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The Impossible Profession is a monthly podcast that invites writers, theorists, and psychoanalytic clinicians to explore psychoanalysis as both a contemporary clinical practice and a lens for understanding the wider world. The show is hosted by Richard B. Keys, an Aotearoa-based psychoanalyst-in-training and writer.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 95 days
Average audio length:
62 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
4 episodes
since Nov. 26, 2025
episodic
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In this episode, Richard talks to psychoanalyst, author, and educator Avgi Saketopoulou about the silence of psychoanalytic institutions over the genocide in Gaza. We discuss the wave of disinvitations and the pleas of neutrality, what Avgi reads in that silence, and her turn from critique to const…
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For the return of the show, Richard talks to professor of psychology and psychoanalyst Derek Hook about his book, Fanon, Psychoanalysis, and Critical Decolonial Psychology. We discuss the various waves of reception of Frantz Fanon and the recent turn to his clinical writing, the notions of the psyc…
In this episode, Richard talks to clinical psychologist, professor, and psychoanalyst Stijn Vanhuele about his recent book, Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy. They discuss critiques of the prevailing biomedical model of psychosis and explore what psychoanalysis uniquely offers in understanding and trea…
In our inaugural episode, Richard talks to psychoanalyst, professor, and writer Jamieson Webster about her latest book, On Breathing. From the central theme of breath and breathlessness that orients Jamieson’s book, we discuss practising psychoanalysis under exceptional circumstances, Covid-19 and …
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