List of Contributors

Eileen Aird is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. She was previously Clinical Director of the Women's Therapy Centre. Publications include a book and several articles on Sylvia Plath, and chapters, papers, and reviews in the fields of literature, counselling, and psychotherapy.

Karen Brooks completed her second year of the four-year training as an Attachment Based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with The Bowlby Centre last year and is currently taking a year out. She has worked for CRUSE Bereavement care as a counsellor for over four years. She has also set up a mother and baby psychoanalytic pilot project with Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, and has done a placement with their acute day services psychiatry department. Karen continues to work as a Project Director and Marketing Communication specialist for the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Southampton, and Surrey while she is training. Karen has a particular interest in bereavement, adoption, and disability issues. Email: karen@chillipots.co.uk

Emerald Davis is vice-chair of The Bowlby Centre. As a psychotherapist, her area of special interest is trauma and dissociation. She is also involved in the work of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability, developing access to psychotherapy for people with learning disability.

Robert Downes works as a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice and as a psychotherapist in a London school. He studied at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy in the 1990s. He has worked with young people who were exploited through prostitution and as a trauma therapist with Transport for London staff. He is co-author of Listening in Colour - Creating a Meeting Place with Young People and a published poet. He is co-editor of the Chiron Association of Body Psychotherapists magazine. Correspondence: email:

Rev. Dr Jason Gordon is a priest of the Archdiocese of Port of Spain. He is a member of the Living Water Community, a lay comm