Dominique: the Case of an Adolescent interview with Jamieson Webster

Summary

Psychoanalysts Jamieson Webster and Jordan Osserman discuss the recently republished, revised translation of Françoise Dolto's Dominique: The Case of an Adolescent. While the child psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto stands alongside Jacques Lacan as a leading light of the Other French School, she has been little translated and remains curiously unknown in the English-speaking world. First published in 1971, Dominique: The Case of an Adolescent is frank and close to the clinical experience. A masterpiece of the genre, it is at once a granular psychological portrait of a troubled adolescent and his familial inheritance, and a historical case study of French society in the 1960s.

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Jordan Osserman

Jordan Osserman is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK, and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist.
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