Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. Marco Posadas to the podcast!
Rendering Unconscious episode 414.
On this episode, Marco discusses his 28-year career in the mental health field. He focuses on LGBTQI+ communities, emphasizing the importance of making psychoanalysis accessible to marginalized groups. Marco highlights his early work training in HIV pre and post-test counseling and recounts his determination to pursue psychoanalytic training. He shares his journey in bringing the Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee of the IPA to fruition, and the creation of the Tiresias Award. We discuss the impact of books like Gender Without Identity and From the Clinic to the Streets on contemporary psychoanalysis, and share future plans for RU Center for Psychoanalysis, including a class on Fanon taught by Lara Sheehi and study group focused on From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (2026), as well as Langston Kahn’s Deep Liberation: Shamanic Tools for Reclaiming Wholeness in a Culture of Trauma (2021).
Dr. Marco Posadas is a psychoanalyst member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), clinical social worker, licensed psychologist (MEX), and earned his PhD at Smith College School for Social Work in Northampton, Massachusetts. He operates a clinical practice in Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Clinical Supervision and Consultation in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Posadas is a member of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and the Mexican Psychoanalytic Association.
He is the inaugural Chair of the Gender and Sexual Diversity Studies Committee of the IPA, where he developed the IPA’s sexual and gender diversity strategic plan that included scientific events in Europe, North American and Latin America; and the creation of the first IPA Tiresias award. He is faculty at several psychoanalytic and psychotherapy training institutes across North America and Latin America where he works to investigate the impact of prejudices in psychoanalytic institutions and in the mind of the clinician. Specifically anti-black racism, white supremacy, and homotransphobia in psychoanalytic clinical practice, and ways to prevent and/or repair harm when caused by the clinician.
His research interests are in prejudices impacting the clinician when working psychoanalytically with LGBTQ+ and racialised peoples and other marginalized communities who have survived trauma. He has worked in the HIV and mental health sectors for almost 30 years, and received the Sue Fairbanks Excellence in Psychoanalytic Knowledge Distinguished Lecturer award at the University of Texas at Austin - Steve Hicks School of Social Work in 2018. Dr. Posadas served on the Board of Directors of the Ontario Association of Social Workers (OASW) where he was recipient of the 2013 OASW Inspirational Leader Award for his work with underserved and marginalized populations, and the Distinguished Social Worker of the year for Toronto award in 2022. Most recently, he was the 2024-2025 Antoinette Calabria visiting scholar for the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas.
He is co-editor of Working Psychoanalytically with Gender Diversity and Sexualities: Resistances to Differences published by Routledge (2025).
Be sure to check out previous episode(s):
RU407: LANGSTON KAHN & ALESSANDRO RŌZ ON WOVEN: A RITUAL OF BELONGING FOR QUEER MEN
RU247: ANN PELLEGRINI & AVGI SAKETOPOULOU ON GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY
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