List of Contributors

Orit Badouk Epstein is a UKCP registered attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor who trained at The Bowlby Centre, London. 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. Orit has published articles in the Attachment Journal and is on the editorial board of the European Society of Trauma and Dissociation newsletter. She is committed to campaigns to counteract the denial and disbelief around ritual abuse. Email: orit_badouk@hotmail.com

Richard Cross has over twenty-three year's experience in delivering improved outcomes for children and young people through the development of effective relational based therapeutic interventions in Scotland, England, and New Zealand. His main area of interest is the interconnections between attachment, trauma, and dissociative disorders, and the development of effective interventions. He is a member of the International Society for the Study of Dissociative Disorders training faculty and the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation. He presents and undertakes consultancy and training to improve understanding and identification abuse. In addition, Richard is Head of Practice for Five Rivers Child Care, a leading national social enterprise that is dedicated to meeting the psychological and emotional well-being of looked-after children and young people who have complex emotional and behavioural needs. Email:

Anne-Marie Fyfe (b. Cushendall, Co. Antrim) has four collections of poetry including, most recently, Understudies: New and Selected Poems (Seren Books, ); has won the Academi Cardiff International Poetry Prize; has organized and facilitated the Coffee-House Poetry reading series, plus workshops, classes, and s