Episode 1: Dr. Rao

In this episode, listeners meet Dr. Ishani Rao, a London-based doctor who worked on a COVID ward throughout 2020.  

This episode is part of a research project investigating how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the dream-life of people living in the British capital, which was developed in partnership with the Museum of London (UK) and the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.

Mentioned in the episode:

• Dr Ishani Rao and Dr George Whittaker, National Health Stories: Tales from the front line

• Sigmund Freud’s specimen dream (the dream of “Irma’s Injection”) from The Interpretation of Dreams

• Emma Eckstein one of Freud’s patients

• Gustave Courbet’s 1866 painting L’Origine du MondeIn this episode we hear from Dr. Ishani Rao, a London-based doctor who has been working on the COVID wards since March of 2020.