Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst and artist based in Sweden, who works remotely online with people all over the world. She is the host of the internationally-renowned podcast Rendering Unconscious, which was awarded the 2023 Gradiva Award for Digital Media by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP).
Dr. Sinclair is the author of Things Happen (2024), Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (2021), The Pathways of the Heart (2021) and Switching Mirrors (2016).
She is the editor of Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (2023), as well as the Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives book series.
Dr. Sinclair co-edited The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond (2025) with Elisabeth Punzi and Myriam Sauer, as well as Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy (2021) with Elisabeth Punzi, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (2019) with Manya Steinkoler, and The Fenris Wolf vol 9 (2017) and The Fenris Wolf vol 11 (2022) with Carl Abrahamsson.
She is a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis, New York, and Senior Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Advanced Studies (GCAS), Dublin. She sits on the International Advisory Board for the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, and is an Editorial Advisor for Parapraxis Magazine.
