Jungian Training and Being Trained: Letting in the Light

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Jan Wiener is a training analyst and supervisor for the Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP) and a previous director of training. She continues in the role of internal consultant to the training at the SAP. She was vice president of the International Association of Analytical Psychology (IAAP) from 2010 until 2013 and a member of the IAAP Executive Committee for six years before that where she had responsibility for the development of the IAAP Router Programmes in different parts of the world. Post-perestroika, together with a group of UK colleagues from different Institutes, she visited different cities in Russia several times a year for more than twenty-five years to provide a programme of teaching, supervision and personal analysis for those wishing to become Jungian analysts who until then had no access to qualified analysts and teachers. Since then, she has taught and supervised extensively in many different parts of the world and is a member of the Training Committee for the Danish Institute (DSAP). She is an external examiner for the Association of Jungian Analysts (AJA) and she has recently completed terms of office as external examiner for the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London and the University of Exeter. She is the author of many papers and chapters on themes such as the analytic relationship, transference and countertransference, unconscious identity, training, supervision and ethics and author/editor of four books. Her book The Therapeutic Relationship: Transference, Countertransference and the Making of Meaning was published by Texas A and M University Press in 2009 and has recently been republished by Jungianeum in 2024 as part of a project to republish classic texts in analytical psychology. Her most recent book, Jungian Analysts Working Across Cultures: From Tradition to Innovation (Crowther and Wiener, Eds.) was published by Routledge in 2021.

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Richard Mizen has worked as a psychotherapist for forty years and qualified as an analyst over thirty years ago. He trained with the Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP) where he is a training analyst and a past member and Chair of the Training Committee. At the SAP he contributed to the design and delivery of various forms of training. He is in private practice as an analyst at Exeter in the southwest of England. For the last eighteen years he has worked at the University of Exeter as Director of the Studies in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy portfolio of programmes, part of the Psychology School in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, where he is an Associate Professor. He designed and leads a doctoral training programme that enables clinicians to become researchers and a second doctoral programme that provides British Psychoanalytic Council accredited clinical trainings to become either a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist or a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. This programme allows access to training from across the UK and internationally. He has published widely and works as a consultant and clinical supervisor to trainees, qualified analysts and psychotherapists and to organisations. He supervises postgraduate research at doctoral and master’s level and has acted as an External Examiner to both academic and clinical programmes. He has taught nationally and internationally including in Italy, the US and Pakistan.

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Catriona Wrottesley is a training analyst for the Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP) and the Independent Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Association (IPCAPA), and senior couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist at Tavistock Relationships, London. She supervises therapists from the UK and abroad, including Germany, Ukraine, and China and is external examiner for the West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy. She 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. Catriona writes and reviews for a range of journals and is an editorial board member of the Journal of Analytical Psychology, reviewer for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis journal, and a member of the review committee for the International Review of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. Her interests are in atmospheres, early states of mind, transgenerational transmission, narcissistic and authoritarian power relationships, and the nature of psychic reality and subjectivity.