The Bernard Zeitlyn Psychotherapy Training Fund is proud and honoured to welcome Juliet Mitchell , Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies and founder of the Cambridge University Centre for Gender Studies, to present the Annual Bernard Zeitlyn Lecture at Wolfson College , Cambridge, on Saturday 11th November. Juliet will be in conversation with Jungian Analyst Catriona Wrottesely about her new book Fratriarchy: the Sibling Trauma and the Law of the Mother, published by Routledge earlier this year. This pivotal work expands on her earlier works in this area – Mad Men and Medusas (Allen Lane and Penguin Press, 2000) and Siblings: Sex and Violence (Polity Press, 2003)
Juliet argues that the mother’s prohibition of her toddler attacking a new or expected sibling is a rite of passage from infancy to childhood – a foundational force structuring all later lateral relationships and social practices. In this major work, Juliet ushers in a new and fundamental dimension to the psychoanalytic discourse as her forthcoming Bernard Zeitlyn lecture will examine and discuss.
During her time living and working in Cambridge many of Juliet’s professional colleagues have benefited profoundly from her inspiring scholarship, teaching and friendship all of which have greatly strengthened the development of the psychoanalytic community in the city and the region. The Bernard Zeitlyn Psychotherapy Training Fund , founded in 1980 to support the training of psychoanalytic therapists in East Anglia through loans and grants from its charitable fund, celebrates through this Annual Lecture Juliet’s major contribution to psychoanalysis in our city, our region and internationally.
About Our Speakers
Juliet Mitchell FBA trained as a psychoanalyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London in the 1970s. She worked full time in private practice in London and later part-time in Cambridge. She is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies and founder of the Cambridge University Centre for Gender Studies, and is an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College and of the University of Cambridge and of University College, London.
Juliet is a Fellow of the British Academy – an award granted to leading academics for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences and she continues to write and teach on psychoanalysis and on gender theory worldwide.
Catriona Wrottesley is a Jungian Analyst and Member of the Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP), and a Senior Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Tavistock Relationships (TR). She is an accredited training analyst for the Association of Child Psychotherapists, and Editorial Board member of the Journal of Analytical Psychology (JAP). She is a British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) Clinician Scholar. Catriona has many years experience of teaching and training psychodynamic and couple psychoanalytic psychotherapists and provides supervision and consultation to other clinicians.