Visible Ink: Celebrating Recent Psychoanalytic Writings

Bernadine Han, MD (she/her) is a psychoanalyst and general and addiction psychiatrist. She works in Brooklyn, NY, both in private practice and at an outpatient clinic of the New York State Office of Mental Health. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, where she teaches and supervises residents and fellows; she also co-chairs the Curriculum Committee and teaches at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is the daughter of Korean immigrants, and grew up outside of Scranton, PA. 

Akiko Motomura, PhD (she/her) is a licensed psychologist in private practice, offering psychotherapy to adults and adolescents in downtown Washington, D.C. and online. In addition to being licensed in D.C., Virginia, and Maryland, she provides online psychotherapy to residents in 42 states participating in PSYPACT.

Dr. Motomura holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a focus on existential-phenomenological psychology and psychodynamic psychotherapy from Duquesne University. She has also served as an adjunct clinical professor at Duquesne University, where she supervised the clinical work of advanced doctoral students for 10 years. Specializing in interpersonal trauma and issues around relationships and attachment, Dr. Motomura also often works with individuals who have a unique relationship with the sense of belonging — whether to family, workplace, various social or cultural groups, or even one's own body or life. Dr. Motomura's clinical interests extend to "in-between" experiences, such as living between cultures and languages. Born in Japan, she has 25 years of experience in mental health in the United States, with 14 years in private practice. Working primarily with Anglophone patients, adopting a Western project of psychotherapy with Foucauldian sensibility, and interweaving psychology, sociology, cultural studies, and post-colonial theories, she embodies a hybrid, "in-between" existence herself.

June Lee Kwon, PhD (she/her) is a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City. She received her doctoral training in Adelphi University, and she is currently in training to become a psychoanalyst in New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She dedicates much of her career to providing psychoanalysis education to emerging clinicians of color. She supervises and teaches at Greene Clinic, a sliding scale private clinic in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. She also serves as one of the board of directors for a nonprofit organization, Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis, a group that is dedicated to providing psychoanalysis to underserved community in NYC, and supporting emerging clinicians who provide psychoanalytic treatment to underserved community. She is an avid and experimental writer in the field of psychoanalysis. Her written works touch on topics such as Asian and Asian American subjectivity, the impact of colonization and other systemic violence, gender, psychoanalytic writing, and more. 

Joseph S. Reynoso, PhD (he/him) is a psychoanalytic clinical psychologist in New York City, where he treats children and adults in private practice.  He is also a provider for the National Basketball Players Association’s mental health and wellness program.  His 2021 paper, “The Racist Within,” published in the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, was a finalist for the Gradiva Award. In 2024, he was a keynote speaker for APA’s Division 39’s Spring meeting on the topic of politics, psychoanalysis, sex and sports. In 2024, he published two co-edited collections of essays on sport and psychoanalysis. The first was a special issue of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society entitled “Just a Game? Sport and Psychoanalytic Theory.” The second was the book Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears, published with Rowman & Littlefield.   In 2024, his piece of short fiction, entitled “The racism of dogs,” was published as an invited contribution for the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality’s special issue on being Asian in America.  His two forthcoming papers, “This Asian will not be analyzed” (Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association) and “We Were Robbed: The Sport of Stealing Enjoyment” (Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society) will be out later this year. 

Mary Kim Brewster, PhD (she/her) is an executive editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and the guest editor of the special edition of Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 24(40): “On Being Asian in America”. She is a clinical psychologist, faculty member of The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis, and the Director of the Serious Mental Illness and the Family Project at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. She supervises in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at City University of New York and has a private practice in New York. 

Almas (Ally) Merchant, PhD (she/her) is a psychoanalytic candidate at NYU Postdoc who works with children, adolescents, adults, families, and intimate partners at Stress and Trauma Evaluation and Psychological Services. Ally strives to help patients engender curiosity within themselves about their mind and their unconscious motivations. Ally's clinical thinking is influenced not only by psychoanalysis but also by interdisciplinary critical theory and the impact of culture and history on her patients' psychological development. Besides her clinical work, Ally provides supervision and mentorship to newer clinicians as well as consultation and education around equity, diversity, and inclusion to organizations and clinicians to become more intentional around providing inclusionary and liberatory care. She also currently serves as Council Representative to the American Psychological Association for Division 39, Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology and as co-chair for the global issues and as co-editor of Sexuality and Gender Studies Journal. Finally, she is a co-host for Couched, a podcast for learning from and listening to conversations between psychoanalyts, artists, and change makers who are knitting together communities.