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About Karyne Messina
I am a licensed psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and on the medical staff of Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. I also maintain a full-time private practice in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
After completing my undergraduate studies at Florida Atlantic University, I earned a master’s and a doctoral degree from George Washington University. I completed my post-doctoral training at the Washington School of Psychiatry and the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. I am currently on the medical staff of Suburban Hospital, which is part of Johns Hopkins Medicine. In my private practice I treat patients with a variety of mental diagnoses and conduct psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for children, adolescents, adults, couples and families.
In 2011, I served as the interim Executive Director of the Washington School of Psychiatry, a nonprofit mental health organization, and was also the director of the Eugene Meyer Treatment Center, also at the Washington School of Psychiatry.
I maintain active memberships with the American Psychological Association, the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Washington School of Psychiatry, the American Board of Psychoanalysis, The Psychohistory Forum, The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture, Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology-Division 39 of the American Psychological Association and Society and the International Psychoanalytical Association.
My books include Misogyny, Projective Identification and Mentalization, Psychoanalytic, Social and Institutional Manifestations, London: Routledge, 2019. Aftermath: Healing from the Trump Presidency, Washington, DC, IPI Press, 2020. Resurgence of Global Populism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy. London: Routledge, 2022. In 2023, Cascade will release my self-help book, It's Not Me, It's You!
Karyne Messina is a licensed psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and on the medical staff of Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. She is the author of Resurgence of Populism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy (Routledge, 2022), "Barbie and the Great American Identity Crisis: The Unfortunate Reality of a Nation Plagued by Racism, Patriarchy, and Stark Hypocrisy (PI Press, April 2024) and the forthcoming "A Psychoanalytic Study of Political Leadership in the United States and Russia" (Routledge, May 2024).
NBN Episodes hosted by Karyne:
September 28, 2025
Brainrot: What Our Screens Are Doing to Our Minds
In this episode of "Brainrot: What Our Screens Are Doing to Our Minds," the podcast explores the devastating effects of sextortion. The host, Dr. Kar…
September 17, 2025
The Unconscious Calculus of Justice
This episode of “A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Racism in America” takes a deep dive into the disturbing legal outcomes of state-sanctioned violence.…
August 27, 2025
Native American History of Washington, DC
Native American History of Washington, DC (History Press, 2023) by Dr. Armand Lione is a comprehensive recounting at the overlooked history of the Ind…
July 23, 2025
The Tug of War: Why Racial Progress Often Meets Resistance and Backlash
Dr. Karyne Messina and Dr. Felicia Powell-Williams, the host and co-host of “Psychoanalytic Perspectives of Racism in America” sponsored by The Americ…
June 13, 2025
Misogynoir and the Psychic Life of Race: Projective Identification, Cultural Authority, and the Black Feminine
The discussion explored the concept of “misogynoir” and its impact on Black women, including the ways in which societal expectations and cultural bias…
May 14, 2025
Brain Rot: What Our Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (8)
In Episode 8, Dr. Messina and Dr. Gill, the host and co-host of this podcast, talked about the emotional toll that is associated with lost time---time…
May 7, 2025
Brain Rot: What Our Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (7)
Drs. Messina and Gill discussed the concept of technoference, which refers to the interference of technology with human connection and its impact on p…
May 6, 2025
Psychoanalytic Defenses and the Battle Over America's Classrooms
This episode delves into the intense conflicts surrounding race, history, and education in America, asking why classrooms have become such volatile ba…
April 20, 2025
Brain Rot: What Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (6)
Drs. Messina and Gill talked about cognitive offloading in our digital age—how smartphones, AI, and other technologies are reshaping our mental habits…
April 9, 2025
Brain Rot: How Screens Affect the Minds of Middle-Age and Older Adults (5)
In episode 5 Dr. Karyne Messina and Dr. Harry Gill talked about what can happen when middle-age and older adults watch screens too much as opposed to …
April 4, 2025
What it Means to Forget
The recent removal of information about Black, Indigenous, and female military personnel from the Arlington National Cemetery’s website exemplifies ho…
March 16, 2025
Brain Rot: How Screens Affect the Minds of Young Adults (4)
In this episode Dr. Karyne Messina, a New Books Network host, and Dr. Harry Gill discussed the negative effects of excessive screen time on young adul…
March 10, 2025
When People Can't Listen
Dr. Karyne Messina, host of this series, and Dr. Felecia Powell-Williams, the co-host, talked about what happens when people can’t listen. They discu…
February 19, 2025
Brain Rot: What Our Screen Are Doing to Our Minds (3)
In the third podcast of this series, “Brain Rot: What Our Screen Are Doing to Our Minds,” host Dr. Karyne Messina, psychologist, psychoanalyst and aut…
February 18, 2025
Trump, Anti-DEI and Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms
In this episode my co-host and I had planned to talk about how the new Trump administration could create unity in America. The episode title had been,…
February 13, 2025
Brain Rot: What Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (2)
“Brain Rot,” the 2024 Oxford word of the year captures the essence of our new podcast that is being created as a special series on the New Books Netwo…
January 22, 2025
Brain Rot: What Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (1)
Led by Dr. Karyne Messina, a psychologist, psychoanalyst, author and host of NBN’s “New Books in Psychology” and “Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Racis…
December 31, 2024
James Baldwin’s Use of Mechanisms of Defense in this Story “Going to Meet the Man”
James Baldwin’s “Going to Meet the Man” is a powerful short story that describes the life of Jesse, a 42-year-old white police officer whose experienc…
December 8, 2024
A Psychoanalytic Study of Political Leadership in the United States and Russia
A Psychoanalytic Study of Political Leadership in the United States and Russia: Searching for Truth (Routledge, 2024) provides psychoanalytic insight …
December 1, 2024
How Psychoanalytic Mechanisms of Defense Affected the 2024 Presidential Campaign and Election
Even though this is not a political show, today we will be talking about the ways in which mechanisms of defense effected both parties in the 2024 cam…
October 22, 2024
Tyranny of the Minority
America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. …
October 20, 2024
The Aftermath
It's been almost five years since a wrathful extraterrestrial called Rex perpetrated a mass shooting that caused hundreds of millions of people to tak…
October 16, 2024
Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms in James Baldwin’s "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"
This podcast describes a short history of a man who did something we’ve lost in America. That man was James Baldwin who insisted on telling the truth.…
September 3, 2024
How Mechanisms of Psychoanalytic Defense Perpetuate Racism in America
The third podcast in this series focuses on an article written by Dr. Dionne Powell who participated in the 2014 documentary, “Black Psychoanalysts Sp…