List of Contributors

Gwen Adshead is a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist. She practises as a group analyst in forensic services, running groups with violent offenders. Her research has been into the attachment histories of mothers who abuse their children. Email: gwen.adshead@wlmht.nhs.uk

Orit Badouk Epstein is an attachment based psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor who trained at The Bowlby Centre. She runs a private practice in North London. She is also one of the trustees of the Paracelsus Trust at the Clinic for Dissociative Studies. Orit has an interest in, and experience of, working with clients who have suffered from extensive trauma and abuse, including ritual abuse, sexual abuse, violence, and emotional abuse. Orit is also committed to empowering parents who have difficulties with their children. Email: orit_badouk@hotmail.com

Katherine Bain has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Pretoria, South Africa and works as a clinical psychologist and lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand. She teaches and supervises on the Clinical Psychology Masters programme. She previously worked as the head of the Psychology Department at Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital. Current research includes an outcomes study of group parent-infant psychotherapy within a South African context. Email:

Dick Blackwell is a group analyst, family therapist, and organization consultant who works in private practice, and with a number of voluntary organizations. He graduated in Business Administration 1971, having been a participant in the struggles for ‘student power’ and ‘third world’ development. He trained as a teacher, and worked as a researcher on youth and community work with black youth in Inner Cities in the early 1970s. He worked in ‘suicide prevention’ in the voluntary sector, before training as a group analyst and as a family therapist, and leading a community mental health project that provided psychotherapy for a range of psychiatric patie