The Nature of Taboo within Cultural Complexes: Theoretical and Clinical Applications1

Accredited training analyst, supervisor and lecturer at the C. G. Jung Institute Zürich (CGJIZ). Born in Barry, South Wales, UK, she received a B.A. (Comb. Hons) from the University of Birmingham and an M.Sc. in Social Policy and Social Work Studies from the London School of Economics (LSE). She was employed as a social worker in south-east London and Scotland during the 1970s dealing with cases of child abuse and intergenerational cycles of economic and social deprivation. In 2008 she received her diploma in analytical psychology from CGJIZ and in 2014, a doctorate in Psychoanalytic Studies from Essex University, UK. Her latest edited book Jungian Dimensions of the Mourning Process, Burial Rituals and Access to the Land of the Dead: Intimations of Immortality was published by Routledge in August 2023. Other published works include a monograph entitled Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations: Origin and Positioning within Cultural Complexes, (Routledge [paperback], 2020) and an edited book with Pilar Amezaga called Jungian Perspectives on Indeterminate States: Betwixt and Between Borders (Routledge, 2021). She is co-editing the material from the 2023 international interdisciplinary conference at the CGJIZ on the multifaceted dimensions of emotions.