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Biography

Dr Jordan Osserman is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the ÌÇÐÄVlog, and a UKCP registered clinical psychoanalyst His research interests include feminist, queer and critical theory; the Lacanian tradition of psychoanalysis; and the politics of the Left. He is a member of The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Jordan's doctoral research, a psychoanalytic study of the practice of male circumcision, was published in 2022 with Bloomsbury, entitled Circumcision on the Couch. More recently, he has worked at Birkbeck as a postdoctoral researcher on the Wellcome Trust funded Waiting Times project, researching the role of time in the care of young people struggling with questions around gender. This ongoing research involves an ethnographic study of the UK's only publicly funded health service for young people considering gender transition. He recently edited a special issue of the journal Psychoanalytic Study of the Child on this subject, Transgender Children: From Controversy to Dialogue. Outside of his academic and clinical work, Jordan serves as Co-President of the ÌÇÐÄVlog branch of University College Union, and also organises with the London Renters Union. He has published collaboratively written reflections on activism during the pandemic in Wellcome Open Research, Radical Philosophy, Viewpoint and Tribune Magazine.

Qualifications

• PhD University College London,

• MA Psychoanalysis, History, and Culture Birkbeck, University of London,

• BA Women's and Gender Studies Dartmouth College,

Appointments

ÌÇÐÄVlog

• Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Psychosocial & Psychoanalytic Studies, ÌÇÐÄVlog (10/1/2022 - present)

• Programme Director, BA Psychodynamic Practice, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, ÌÇÐÄVlog (10/1/2022 - present)

Other academic

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Waiting Times, Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London (1/10/2019 - present)