# Marilyn A.F. Mathew

**Jungian Analyst · Training and Supervising Analyst**

*South Devon, GB*

**Affiliation:** British Jungian Analytic Association (BJAA)

## Biography

Marilyn A.F. Mathew is a senior training and supervising analyst for the British Jungian Analytic Association (BJAA), which is a member society of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) and a constituent body of the British Psychotherapy Foundation (bpf). 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. Leaning more towards James Hillman than Melanie Klein, Mathew works in private practice with adults and supervisees in south Devon, UK. She works mainly online, extending her reach to colleagues and analysands abroad.

## Selected publications

- Bringing the Shadow towards Light. Chapter in Jung's Shadow Concept: the Hidden Light and Darkness Within Ourselves, Christopher Perry & Rupert Tower (eds), 2023, Routledge
- Together — apart: in touch in a time of separation, Journal of Analytical Psychology, July 2021
- Aqua Vitae, Aqua Permanens: Dreaming, Drowning, Swimming & Surfing in Analysis, Journal of Analytical Psychology, May 2011
- Exploring the Mysterious Borderland between Self and Other, IAAP European Conference, St Petersburg, 2012
- The Dark Materials of Analysis: the Spirit of Place, IAAP Congress, 2007
- Reverie: Beyond Thought and Prayer, Journal of Analytical Psychology, May 2005
- Supervision & the Triangular Fractal, 2004
- Unlocking the Uroborus
- Stranded Starfish, Journal of the British Association of Psychotherapists, 1995

**Profile:** https://www.seba.health/directory/analysts/marilyn-af-mathew/