Interview with Jacob Johanssen

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Jacob Johanssen

Jacob Johanssen, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in Communications, St. Mary’s University (London). His most recent books are Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere: Male Bodies of Dis/Inhibition (Routledge, 2022), Event Horizon: Sexuality, Politics, Online Culture, and the Limits of Capitalism (with Bonni Rambatan, Zer0 Books, 2021), and Media and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction (with Steffen Krüger, Karnac Books, 2022). He is a Founder Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). His research interests include psychoanalysis and digital media, media and sexuality, online culture, and psychosocial studies.

Michael E. Shulman

Michael E. Shulman, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst, psychologist, and educator on the faculties of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and the University of Michigan’s Department of Psychiatry. He is current Chair of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s “How to Teach Freud” Study Group, and is a past Co-Chair of APsaA’s Committee on Psychoanalysis and Undergraduate Education. He has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and his work has been published in national and international psychoanalytic and psychological journals. His current interests include psychoanalytic technique, psychoanalysis and social issues, psychoanalysis and technology, and narcissism and “spectacular” figures. Dr. Shulman is in the full-time private practice of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and consultation in Ann Arbor, Michigan.