Dr Jordan Osserman

Biography

Dr Jordan Osserman is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, where he is also the Director of the BA Programme in Psychodynamic Practice. His research interests include feminist, queer and critical theory; the Lacanian tradition of psychoanalysis; and the politics of the Left. He practices psychoanalytic psychotherapy and is completing an advanced clinical training with 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 is an organiser with the #CoronaContract campaign to end casualisation in universities, and 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

University of Essex

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

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

Other academic

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