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Interview with Dr Dorothea Wraith
Date: 24 Apr to 27 Sep 1991 - 24 Apr 1991 - 27 Sep 1991
From: New Zealand Medical Women's Association: Records
By: Wraith, Dorothea Mary, 1910-1993
Reference: OHInt-0019/06
Description: Dr Wraith describes childhood in Wellington and the Hutt Valley, education, desire to be a doctor, attendance at Newnham College, Cambridge, attitude to women medical students in the 1930s, work as a house surgeon in London hospitals during the Blitz (World War II), the development of her interest in child psychology, psychotherapy and psychiatry. Discusses the state of these disciplines in the 1940s. Recalls conscription into Indian Medical Service, work and conditions in India and Ceylon, further study in England in psychiatry after the war, work in Uganda, her interest in Jungian theory and psychodynamics, analytic training as a Jungian analyst, work in child guidance clinics, marriage and return to New Zealand and the Wellington Child Guidance Clinic. Discusses Jungian analysis, its use in New Zealand, and training seminars in psychodynamics that she has run. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Neville Glasgow Venue - Dr Wraith's home at Eastbourne, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004285 - OHC-004289 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 4 interview(s). 4.04 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 689. Colour photograph of Dr Wraith, undated