ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action

06/09/2026

"My hope is that the reader doesn't just move through the issue efficiently, but rather thinks with the page, allowing the visual structure to guide their own internal associations."

— ROOM Creative Director Boyd Delancey

That spirit has guided ROOM for the past 10 years.

Through writing, art, psychoanalysis, and design, ROOM has sought to create experiences that encourage reflection, dialogue, and discovery rather than quick consumption.

Join us at ROOM's 10th Anniversary Gala as we celebrate the community that helped transform a small publication into a global platform reaching readers in more than 160 countries.

🎟️ Tickets: bit.ly/4vBhgO6

06/03/2026

For ten years, ROOM has been built on exactly this conviction: that the most personal and particular expression is also, often, the most universal. Whatever you've been carrying, we want to hear it.

Join our dialogue and send in your work to ROOM 10.26.
Submit Here: https://analytic-room.submittable.com/submit/357371/call-for-submissions-room-10-26

06/02/2026

As we approach our 10th anniversary Gala celebration, we want to share something we are especially excited about.

On Wednesday, July 22, the evening before the Gala, ROOM will host an in-person event at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York City. It is a rare opportunity to gather in the same room, to mark this milestone together, and to spend an evening in conversation with this year's Coline Covington Award recipient, Professor Mark Solms. Tickets are available and presented upon registering for the ROOM 10th Anniversary Gala at the link below.

Learn More and Register Here:
https://analytic-room.com/gala2026/

06/01/2026

ROOM turns 10 this year — and we’re celebrating a decade of analytic action, global dialogue, and creative resistance.

From essays and poetry to community projects across 160 countries, ROOM has grown into something extraordinary.

Join us for an evening honoring the past 10 years — and the work ahead.

🎟️ Get your tickets here: bit.ly/4dGQiNK

05/28/2026

What does it take to build peace across irreconcilable divides? In this panel conversation, psychoanalysts Karim Dajani and Eyal Rozmarin are joined by Lord John Alderdice, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and architect of the Good Friday Agreement.

Drawing on his experience in Northern Ireland, Lord Alderdice offers a roadmap. Together, the three address questions of asymmetry, the resistance of psychoanalytic institutions to acknowledging political violence, and the challenge of engaging emotional actors with reason. What emerges is less a debate than a working session between people who believe that stopping the killing, telling the truth, and refusing violence are not naïve positions but the only ones that have ever actually worked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zXPcCHK-ng

05/27/2026

Save the Date!

We are thrilled to invite you to ROOM's annual Gala, celebrating our 10th anniversary, on Thursday, July 23, at 8 PM EDT on Zoom. Our theme this year is "What Drives Us."

We are honored to announce that this year's Coline Covington Award will be presented to Mark Solms, a pioneer in neuropsychoanalysis whose new book, "The Only Cure: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing" (Pegasus, 2026) makes a transformative case for what drives us and what healing ourselves actually requires.

Read more and Register Here: https://ow.ly/41uX50Z3BlY

05/22/2026

Ann Shenfield blurs the past and present in her poem "Roses Began," live now in ROOM 2.26.

Read the full piece here:https://ow.ly/6Sql50Z2llb

05/21/2026

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Shari Appollon, a Haitian-American psychoanalyst. Appollon explores how her psychoanalytic training has complicated her vision of her family's origins in Haiti and her own experience in America. In caring for her mother at the end of her life, Appollon noticed parallels between not entirely knowing her own mother and not knowing Haiti. She unfolds how vulnerability in writing both exposes and fortifies the self.

Listen here: https://ow.ly/gtSr50Z2mJN

05/12/2026

What lives in the in-between?

The pause before an answer. The sliver of light between shadow and knowing. The quiet stretch between one chapter of life and the next.

In ROOM 2.26, multidisciplinary artist Margaret Vega gives form to exactly that. Drawing from clouds, light, stone, and shape across global landscapes, her work prolongs the fleeting — the fluid, momentary interrelationships of nature that mirror our own human existence.

Explore the full gallery: https://analytic-room.com/art/margaret-vega/

Margaret Vega taught undergraduate and graduate courses in painting, drawing, color theory, concept development, and thesis at Kendall College of Art and Design until 2022.