ABOUT THE HOST

Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works remotely online with people all over the world.

Feel free to contact her at vs [AT] drvanessasinclair [DOT] net

Dr. Sinclair hosts the internationally-renowned podcast Rendering Unconscious, which was awarded the Gradiva Award for Digital Media by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). 

She is the author of Things Happen (2024), Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (2021), The Pathways of the Heart (2021) and Switching Mirrors (2016). 

She is the editor of Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (2023), as well as the Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2024) book series. 

Dr. Sinclair co-edited The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond (2025) with Elisabeth Punzi and Myriam Sauer, as well as Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy (2021) with Elisabeth Punzi, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (2019) with Manya Steinkoler, and The Fenris Wolf 9 (2017) and The Fenris Wolf 11 (2022) with Carl Abrahamsson. 

She is a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis, sits on the International Advisory Board for the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, and is Editorial Advisor for Parapraxis Magazine.

Photo by Carl Abrahamsson