Marilyn A.F. Mathew

Marilyn A.F. Mathew is a senior training analyst for the British Jungian Analytic Association (BJAA), a constituent body of the British Psychotherapy Foundation (bpf) and a member society of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP). She qualified as a Jungian analyst in 1994 and has since held leadership positions including Chair of the BJAA and Chair of the BJAA Training Committee. With nearly thirty years of experience running Infant Observation Seminar Groups, Mathew has become one of the foremost voices on Jungian approaches to early development. She was among the first analysts to undertake a Jungian Infant Observation as a formal training requirement, and her award-winning paper Stranded Starfish was published in the Journal of the British Association of Psychotherapists in 1995. Before training as an analyst, she led antenatal groups for pregnant couples and postnatal groups for new mothers. Her primary areas of interest include unconscious and nonverbal communication, psyche and soma, imagery, and dreams. She teaches theoretical seminars on dreams, myths, fairy tales, and alchemy, and runs weekly clinical seminars for analysts-in-training. Mathew works in private practice with adults and supervisees both in person in south London and online, extending her reach to colleagues and clients abroad.