Marie Bridge read modern languages at Oxford. She trained first as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and later as a psychoanalyst. In 2004 she left London and is now in full-time private practice in East Anglia. She is a Training Analyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex.
Literature was present at the birth of psychoanalysis. When Freud made his momentous discovery of the Oedipus complex within himself and his patients, he recognised that this psychic configuration... (more)