Catriona Wrottesley

Biography

CATRIONA WROTTESLEY Jungian analyst, Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP) Senior Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Tavistock Relationships (TR). Catriona is a Training Analyst for the Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP) and the Independent Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Association (IPCAPA). She supervises therapists from the UK and abroad, including Germany, Ukraine and China and is External Examiner for the West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy. Catriona joined Tavistock Relationships (TR) faculty staff as a clinical lecturer in 2012 where she was later appointed Head of the MA in Couple and Individual Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy and MSc in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy before taking up the position of Head of Psychoanalytic Training until 2020. At TR, she taught psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice seminars, supervised groups of psychodynamic couple therapists in training and individual couple psychoanalytic psychotherapists in training. Catriona writes and reviews for a wide range of journals and is an editorial board member of the Journal of Analytical Psychology (JAP). She is a peer reviewer for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal, and member of the review committee for the International Review of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. Her 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. Catriona is co-editor of a forthcoming book, 'Jungian Training and Being Trained: Letting in the Light', together with Jan Wiener and Richard Mizen, scheduled for publication by Karnac in June 2026: '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 Journal papers Wrottesley, C. (February 2026) Clinical Commentaries, Case response 1. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 71, 1. Wrottesley, C. (2022), Sulking as a declaration of dependence. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 38: 515-532. Boerma, M., & Wrottesley, C. (2020). The development of integrated training at Tavistock Relationships. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 10(2), 198-202. Wrottesley, C. (2018). Three in the Room. Therapy Today, March 2018. pp.24-27. 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. Book Reviews Wrottesley, C. (2025). A Jungian Perspective on the TherapistPatient Relationship in Film: Cinema as Our Therapist by Ruth Netzer. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 15(1), 115-117. 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). 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. (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). Review of Couples on the Couch. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. pp. 82-84. 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. (2013). Men, Women and Relationships A Post-Jungian Approach: Gender Electrics and Magic Beans by Phil Goss. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 58(4), 547-549. Film Reviews Wrottesley, C. (2023). Film Review: Chaos Dragon and the Light. Journal of Analytical Psychology. 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. Interviews 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). 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 Dr Paola Mariotti. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 2(2), 247-254 Wrottesley, C. (2012). An Interview with Prophecy Coles. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 2(1), 99-106. EVENTS 2025 November 29, 2025,' 'Something in the air': Transgenerational transmission of affect through atmospheres.' Society of Analytical Psychology, London, Annual Lecture, 2025. March 9, 2025, "Sulking as a Declaration of Dependence", a paper focusing on sulking as an emotional state and behaviour -- a remnant of unmet needs in childhood characterized by misery and sometimes hostility -- that occurs within intimate relationships (part two of two-part seminar series for members of the Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group, Bay Area, San Francisco) February 23, 2025, "Couple Superego Deadlock", a paper focused on "superego deadlock" -- a form of projective gridlock, a concept elucidated by Mary Morgan -- a phenomenon whereby individuals, despite exhibiting sophisticated cognitive capacities in their professional spheres, unleash a primitive and aggressive superego dynamic within their intimate partnerships (part one of two-part seminar series for members of the Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group, Bay Area, San Francisco) 2024 28 September, 2024 - Paper: Unaccountable power in our training institutions. Psychotherapy Sussex, Brighton. 21 July, 2024 - Lecture: Early States of Mind, Society of Analytical Psychology Wuhan Summer School. 16 July, 2024 Lecture: Couple Superego Deadlock at Tavistock Relationships Advanced Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy Summer School. 2023 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. 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

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