AUDIO
Interview with Dr Dorothea Wraith
- Date
- 24 Apr to 27 Sep 1991 - 24 Apr 1991 - 27 Sep 1991
- 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
- Additional description
Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.
- Use/Reproduction
- Restricted Copyright: Held by New Zealand Women's Medical Association
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material
- Part of
- New Zealand Medical Women's Association: Records / Oral histories of NZ Medical Women Graduates
- Format
- 5 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 4 interview(s), 4.04 Hours and minutes Duration, Oral histories, Illustration: Colour photograph of Dr Wraith, undated
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Interview with Dr Dorothea Wraith, printed abstract
Date: 24 Apr to 27 Sep 1991
From: New Zealand Medical Women's Association: Records
Reference: OHA-0689
Description: Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s).
Interview with Dr Dorothea Wraith, tape one
Date: 24 Apr to 27 Sep 1991
From: New Zealand Medical Women's Association: Records
Reference: OHC-004285
Description: Interviewer(s) - Neville Glasgow Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 5 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Dr Dorothea Wraith, tape three
Date: 24 Apr to 27 Sep 1991
From: New Zealand Medical Women's Association: Records
Reference: OHC-004287
Description: Interviewer(s) - Neville Glasgow Arrangement: Tape sequence - 3 of 5 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Dr Dorothea Wraith, tape two
Date: 24 Apr to 27 Sep 1991
From: New Zealand Medical Women's Association: Records
Reference: OHC-004286
Description: Interviewer(s) - Neville Glasgow Arrangement: Tape sequence - 2 of 5 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Dr Dorothea Wraith, tape four
Date: 24 Apr to 27 Sep 1991
From: New Zealand Medical Women's Association: Records
Reference: OHC-004288
Description: Interviewer(s) - Neville Glasgow Arrangement: Tape sequence - 4 of 5 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Dr Dorothea Wraith, tape five
Date: 24 Apr to 27 Sep 1991
From: New Zealand Medical Women's Association: Records
Reference: OHC-004289
Description: Interviewer(s) - Neville Glasgow Arrangement: Tape sequence - 5 of 5 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).