Rendering Unconscious episode 303.
Dr. Mikita Brottman returns to Rendering Unconscious to discuss her latest book Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida (2024)
Dr. Mikita Brottman is a writer, mostly of non-fiction. Although her writing includes elements of memoir, psycho-analysis, history, and forensic psychology, her most consistent focus is the reconsideration and interrogation of the true crime genre. Dr. Brottman has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, and Director of the Humanities Program at the Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art in downtown Baltimore, where she teaches courses in literature, critical studies, and myth. Her books include Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder (2021). Her books include An Unexplained Death: the True Story of a Body at the Belvedere (2018), The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men’s Prison (2016), Thirteen Girls (2014) and Phantoms of the Clinic: from Thought-Transference to Projective Identification (2011). Her podcast is Forensic Transmissions.
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Listen to my previous conversations with Mikita Brottman:
RU149: MIKITA BROTTMAN ON COUPLE FOUND SLAIN: AFTER A FAMILY MURDER
RU27: MIKITA BROTTMAN, AUTHOR & PSYCHOANALYST ON FORENSICS, FREUD & WRITING TRUE CRIME
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Rendering Unconscious podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works with people internationally. Follow at Instagram and Twitter.
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Dr. Sinclair is the author of Things Happen (Trapart Books, 2024), The Pathways of the Heart (Trapart Books, 2021), Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2021) and Switching Mirrors (Trapart Books, 2016).
She is the editor of Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives vols. 1 & 2 (Trapart Books, 2024), Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (Routledge, 2023), Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy (Trapart Books, 2021) with Dr. Elisabeth Punzi, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) co-edited with Dr. Manya Steinkoler, and The Fenris Wolf, vol 9 (Trapart Books, 2017) and The Fenris Wolf, vol 11 (Trapart Books, 2022) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson.
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