iPSA’s small core membership depends on a wide and diverse contingency of (usually) sympathetic theorists, educators, and clinicians who bring in fresh perspectives. They are welcomed to all events and encouraged to contribute the the journal, Psyche Extended, and sometimes enlisted to direct events. iPSA is open to be a platform for zoom seminars directed by affiliate or non-members, with the aim of extending our understanding of the Lacanian-Freudian field through examples from architecture and landscape, literature, film, and popular culture. In the name of autodidaction, our psyche is ever extending itself
affiliate members
• Kati Blom, katriina.blom@ncl.ac.uk
• Katarina Andjelkovic, katarina.code@gmail.com
• Noé Badillo, badillon2020@icloud.com
• Anahita Shadkam, annahita.shadkam@gmail.com
• Dinah Holtzman, dinahmight1973@gmail.com
• Claudia Lapping, c.lapping@ucl.ac.uk
• Risa Mandell, rmm0535@gmail.com
Dr. Mandell is a clinical social work psychotherapist; ecocentrically-minded; play & improv enthusiast; suchness practitioner; paradox aficionado, default ethical position: ends don’t justify means and first, do no harm extrapolated from medicine to daily living; therefore, let’s get animals out of R&D – they can’t give consent plus there are more effective methods.
• Trace Fleeman Garcia, me@tracefleemangarcia.com
Trace Fleeman Garcia first became interested in psychoanalysis when he read Laurie Schneider Adams’ Art and Psychoanalysis as a teenager. Later, during his (very nontraditional) studies in critical theory at the Oregon Institute for Creative Research, he developed a wider appreciation of critical methods including psychoanalysis. He is Lacan-adjacent and gravitates towards him for his engagement with algebraic method and semiotics, as well as his later interest in mysticism. Garcia is editor of ablanatha, an online literary & arts magazine, founded in 2025.
• Christopher Simpson, christopher.c.g.simpson@gmail.com
Christopher’s broad ranging and international teaching practice encompasses specialist work with individual clients, masterclasses or ongoing courses at higher education institutions, and workshops for schools or colleges. He led Screen Acting and Movement Psychology strands on the BA (Hons) Acting degree at Northampton University and Acting on Camera at the Drama Centre. He taught regularly for years at the Giles Foreman Centre for Acting where he led courses in acting on camera and mask work with post-graduate students of acting as well as leading evening classes for professionals at the studio.
• Wei Wang, wangweiacademic@hotmail.com
Wei Wang is an independent researcher and potential PhD candidate with interests in psychoanalysis in relation to Chinese garden design, use, and cultural significance.
active contributors/collaborators
• Dr. Kōan Jeff Baysa, MD
• Jodi LaCoe
invited critics / occasional participants
• Dominik Lejman
fictional members
• Francis Conrad, author, double; read more about the use of a pen-name.