Marianne Vysma

Marianne Vysma is a Jungian analyst and medical anthropologist with over twenty years of private practice in The Hague, Netherlands. She is a member of the Nederlandse Associatie voor Analytische Psychologie (NAAP) and the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), as well as the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists (IGAP) in Switzerland. Vysma holds an affiliation with the University of Amsterdam, where she has pursued research through the Medical Anthropology Unity in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Her scholarly work addresses the intergenerational consequences of collective violence, examining how trauma reverberates across generations in post-conflict settings. She has undertaken research assignments in Afghanistan and Rwanda, with particular focus on how young adult children of mothers who survived rape and other atrocities during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi experience the psychological aftereffects in their own lives. Her clinical practice integrates psychoanalysis and anthropological inquiry as complementary frameworks for understanding the meaning and purpose of emotional experience. She has presented and published on themes of culture, identity, and the transmission of collective trauma.