Catriona Wrottesley

Biography

CATRIONA WROTTESLEY is a Jungian analyst (Society of Analytical Psychology) and senior couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor on the Tavistock Relationships' Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy training. She is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) and a BPC Clinician Scholar. She writes and reviews for a wide range of journals and is an editorial board member of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. She is a peer reviewer for the British Journal of Psychotherapy, the Journal of Analytical Psychology, Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal, and the International Review of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. Her particular interests are in analytical psychology, couple relationships, developmental psychopathology, early states of mind, transgenerational transmission of trauma, narcissistic and authoritarian power relationships, and the nature of psychic reality and subjectivity. She joined Tavistock Relationships (TR) faculty as a clinical lecturer in 2012. She was Head of the MA in Couple and Individual Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy and MSc in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy from 2016-2019, and then Head of Psychoanalytic Training until July 2020. She is currently a training supervisor on TRs couple psychoanalytic training, an accredited training analyst for the Association of Child Psychotherapists and training therapist for the Society of Analytical Psychology's Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training. She supervises therapists from the UK and abroad, including Germany, Ukraine and China. Catriona is co-editor of a forthcoming book, 'Jungian Training and Being Trained: Letting in the Light', together with Jan Wiener and Richard Mizen, to be published by Karnac in 2025. This volume of edited papers aims to let in the light on the unconscious forces that shape the training experiences of trainees and their trainers. We hope to explore and challenge many of the implicit assumptions that influence and fashion the trainings we offer. International contributors, each in engaged in the development and delivery of training will examine the various conscious and unconscious beliefs and processes that can undermine and contaminate the training process Publications Boerma, M., & Wrottesley, C. (2020). The development of integrated training at Tavistock Relationships. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 10(2), 198-202. Wrottesley, C. (2024). The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life by Clare Carlisle. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 14(1), 99-101. Wrottesley, C. (2023). Fratriarchy: The Sibling Trauma and the Law of the Mother by Juliet Mitchell. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 13(2), 221-224. Wrottesley, C. (2023). Film Review: Chaos Dragon and the Light. Journal of Analytical Psychology. Wrottesley, C. (2023). Stevns, Martha & Hawkins, Lucinda (Eds.). Transforming Infantile Trauma in Analytic Work with Children and Adults. The Clinical Writings of Alessandra Cavalli. Routledge. 2023. Pp. 175.Pbk. £29.99. Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol 68, Issue 2, pp. 448-450. Wrottesley, C. (2023). The Physical and Virtual Space of the Consulting Room: Room-Object Spaces by Deborah L.S.Wright. Published by Routledge, Abingdon, 2022, £23.99 paperback. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 39: 404-408. Wrottesley, C. (2023). The Marriage Portrait by Maggie OFarrell. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 13(1), 97-99. Wrottesley, C. (2023). Music, G. Respark: Igniting Hope and Joy after Depression and Trauma. London: Mind-Nurturing Books, 2022. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 68, 1, 180191. Wrottesley, C. (2022). Arts review. After Love, Aleem Khan (director, 2021). Supernova, Harry Macqueen (director), 2021. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, Vol 12, Number 2, pp.227-229. Wrottesley, C. (2022), Sulking as a declaration of dependence. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 38: 515-532. Wrottesley, C. (2021). Interpretation in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Cross-cultural Perspectives edited by Keogh, Timothy and Palacios, Elizabeth. Published by Routledge, Abingdon. British Journal of Psychotherapy. Volume 37, Issue 2, May 2021, pp. 333-336. Wrottesley, C. (2019). Davids, M. Fakhry & Shavit, Naomi (Eds). Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: The Work of Irma Brenman Pick. London & New York: Routledge. 2018. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 64(2), 283-289. Wrottesley, C. (2019). Book Review. Ruthless Winnicott: The Role of Ruthlessness in Psychoanalysis and Political Protest, by Sally Swartz, London: Routledge, 2019. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis 9(2) 202-206 (2019) Wrottesley, C. (2019). Couple Stories: Application of Psychoanalytic Ideas in Thinking About Couple Interaction edited by A.Novakovic and Marguerite Reid. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 35(2), 337-340. Wrottesley, C. (2018). Three in the Room. Therapy Today, March 2018. pp.24-27. Wrottesley, C. (2018). Review of Couples on the Couch. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. pp. 82-84. Wrottesley, C. (2018). Response to The disintermediation of desire : from 3D (esire) to 2D (esire) by Alessandra Lemma. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, Volume 8 (2), pp. 123-130. Wrottesley, C. (2017) Brief Intervention With A Chinese Couple Commentary, Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 7(1), pp. 102-112. Wrottesley, C. (2017). Edipo non muore Mai? La coppia di nonni alle prese con Edipo. INTERAZIONI. Clinica e ricerca psicoanalitica su individuo-coppia-famiglia. Wrottesley, C. (2017). Does Oedipus Never Die? The Grandparental Couple Grapple With Oedipus. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 7(2), 188-207. Wrottesley, C. (2016). Tea with Winnicott, by Brett Kahr, with illustrations by Alison Bechdel, Karnac, 2016. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 6(2), 221-224. Wrottesley, C. (2016). Meeting the Author: An Interview with Joy Schaverien. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 6 Number 1, 96. Wrottesley, C. (2014). An Interview with Barbara Dearnley. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 4(2), 193-203. Wrottesley, C. (2013). Men, Women and RelationshipsA Post-Jungian Approach: Gender Electrics and Magic Beans by Phil Goss. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 58(4), 547-549. Wrottesley, C. (2013). An Interview with Pauline Hodson. Couple And Family Psychoanalysis, 3(1), 94-102. Wrottesley, C. (2013). Meeting the Author: An Interview with Deborah Cohen. Couple And Family Psychoanalysis, 3(2), 244-250. Wrottesley, C. (2012). An Interview with Prophecy Coles. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 2(1), 99-106. Wrottesley, C. (2012). An Interview with Dr Paola Mariotti. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 2(2), 247-254 Recent events 2023 November 11, 2023 - In conversation with JULIET MITCHELL about her recent book Fratriarchy, The Sibling Trauma and the Law of the Mother (Routledge, 2023) at Wolfson College, Cambridge November 17-19, 2023 Speaker and co-convener at the International Autumn Conference Thinking About Analytic Training In A Changing World (Society of Analytical Psychology, online). Her paper was entitled Unaccountable power in our training institutions. 2024 16 July, 2024 Lecture: Couple Superego Deadlock at Tavistock Relationships Advanced Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy Summer School. 21 July, 2024 - Lecture: Early States of Mind, Society of Analytical Psychology Wuhan Summer School. 28 September, 2024 - Paper: Unaccountable power in our training institutions. Psychotherapy Sussex, Brighton.

Qualifications

• Jungian analyst Society of Analytical Psychology, London (2022)

• Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist (MA in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy) Tavistock Relationships, London (2015)

• Couple and Individual Psychodynamic Psychotherapist (Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Couple and Individual Psychotherapy) Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships. (2012 )

• Psychodynamic Psychotherapist (Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (2005) /MA in Psychoanalytic Studies, 2007) WPF Kensington, London (2005)

• MA in English Language and Literature University of Aberdeen (1978)

Thesis