List of Contributors

Orit Badouk Epstein is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor who trained at The Bowlby Centre, where she is a member of the executive committee. She runs a private practice in North London and is 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. In addition, Orit is committed to helping parents who have difficulties with their children. Email: orit_badouk@hotmail.com

Kate Evans is a healing DID survivor, writer, and teacher, whose booklets on aids to healing from dissociation are used by trainers and workers in the field. Kate has written a children's bestseller and got another into ‘Pick of the Year’. She has had comedies performed, and a musical workshopped by the National Youth Music Theatre. For the past decade, her survivor poetry has been published regularly in journals and has included a volume published by the Survivors Press. Her book, Thank You Greenham: One Woman's Memories of Direct Action was published in 2008. Kate has also worked as a teacher of English, a secretary, a potter, and a teacher of pottery to children. ‘Mobile Phone’ comes from a new poetry collection, Connecting, which has many poems from different stages of healing. Kate's recent work is available from Ariadne Press, 27a Palmerston Road, London N22 8QH.

Graeme Galton is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist working in private practice and in the National Health Service. His clinical work is particularly influenced by attachment and psychodynamic theories. In the NHS, he works at the Parkside Clinic in London with individuals and groups in an outpatient psychotherapy service. He is a consultant psychotherapist at the Clinic for Dissociative Studies. He is also a supervisor and teacher at The Bowlby Centre, where he is a registered member. Email: