Dorothea Mary WRAITH   
MA (Camb), MB BChir (Camb), DPH (Lond), DPsychH, FRANZCP
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Born Wellington 23/12/1910    Died Eastbourne, Wellington 30/8/1993

MA (Camb) 1932, BChir (Camb) 1935, MB (Camb) 1937, DPH (Lond) 1939, DPsychH 1952, MRANZCP 1971, FRANZCP 1986

Clinical training at King's College Hospital, London

MOH in London.  Worked at Mill Hill Hospital, a branch of the Maudsley Hospital, 1941 - 1942
MO with the Indian Medical Service 1943 - 1944
District Medical Officer, Colonial Service Uganda 1946 - 1947

After an illness, took up psychodynamic psychiatry.  Attended the School of Analytical Psychology, London 1957 - 1967, where she qualified as a Jungian Analyst.
Child Psychiatrist, Bedford Child Guidance Clinic 1957 - 1967

Returned to NZ in 1968
Visiting Child Psychiatrist, Child Health Clinic, Wellington Hospital Board 1970 - 1975

Member of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysts and the International Association of Jungian Analysts (Zurich).

Dorothy continued her analytic practice in Eastbourne until her death.

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Dorothea Wraith

Obituary: NZMJ 1993 106:484

photo courtesy of
Dale Dodd