Academic and Clinical Background

• Education: BA (2000) from Sarah Lawrence College; PhD in Clinical Psychology (2008) from the CUNY Graduate Center
• Teaches and supervises doctoral students in clinical psychology at CUNY Graduate Center, and has long-standing teaching roles across The New School and CUNY

Books

• The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis: Desire and Its Sublimation (2011)
• Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine (2013), co-authored with Simon Critchley
• Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis (2018)
• Disorganization and Sex (2022)
• On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe (2025), published by Catapult (US) and Peninsula Press (UK)

Articles and Media

Webster regularly contributes to a wide range of publications, including:

• The New York Times — Opinion pieces like “I Don’t Need to Be a Good Person” (2023)
• The New York Review of Books — “A Child is Being Aborted” (2022)
• The Los Angeles Review of Books — “Freudulence” (2024)
• Artforum, among other scholarly and psychoanalytic journals

Engagements & Fellowships

• Participated as a Fellow in the “Futures of Capitalism” program at The New Institute for the academic year 2024–2025
• Spoke at the Aspen Art Museum in connection with the exhibition In the House of the Trembling Eye, tying psychoanalysis to themes in art, archaeology, and cultural discourse