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Jungian analyst Ann Casement was born in Bombay in January 1938, into an old colonial family. Her earliest vivid memory, one which stayed with her throughout her life, was from three years of age and of Dehradun, in the Himalayan foothills of the Doon Valley. There her beloved father, Rodney Chase, trained as an officer in the Royal Indian Army in order to serve in World War II. In 1951, at 13, she was brought to London where she gradually adapted to life in the West, but her Indian roots remained deeply embedded in the Mataram and remained with her until her death. She lived with her father, who had resumed his successful architectural practice in London, but he died shortly after when Ann was only 16. She was proud that he was bestowed with the Military Cross for his conduct during the war.
As a cradle Catholic, Ann was schooled exclusively in convents under the devoted care of the nuns who looked after her education and well-being. At the Sorbonne in the late 1950s, her encounter with Claude Lévi-Strauss led her to take up anthropology at the London School of Economics and physical anthropology became imprinted in her as a lifelong interest.
Ann began her first Jungian analysis in her early 20s, which she took to immediately and she came to realize her calling to train as a psychoanalyst. She left her work in psychiatry to focus on building her psychoanalytic practice and worked as both a Jungian analyst and a Neuropsychoanalyst; she was steeped in archetypal and developmental theory and practice and incorporated contemporary Freudian, Kleinian, neo-Kleinian, Lacanian and CBT approaches in her work.
Her career was studded with multifaceted areas of service: a founding member of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society, she also served on the International Association for Analytical Psychology's Executive Committee and its Ethics Committee, being appointed Chair of the latter for two of her three terms. She was a Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine and the R