Books by Jamieson Webster

Part memoir, part clinical case, part theoretical investigation, this book searches for the body. Jamieson Webster traces conversion's shifting meanings in an intimate account of her own conversion from patient to psychoanalyst, as well as her continual struggle to apprehend the complexities of the patient's body.

From its peculiar birth in Freud's self-analysis to its current state of deep crisis, psychoanalysis has always been a practice that questions its own existence. This book argues that the life and death of psychoanalysis hinges on the question of desire itself, and brings this question back to the center of psychoanalytic thought and practice.