Jamieson Webster, PhD
Distinguished Research Fellow
Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in private practice based in New York City. In addition to her clinical work, she is a part-time faculty member at The New School for Social Research. She also holds a distinguished research position—Distinguished Research Fellow—at the the Global Centre for Advanced Studies — GCAS College Dublin.
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 (e.g., “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.