List of Contributors

Orit Badouk Epstein is an attachment based psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a supervisor. She regularly writes articles and reviews for the ESTD newsletter and Attachment journal. E-mail: orit_badouk@hotmail.com, oritbadoukepstein.com

Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623-15 December 1673) was an English aristocrat, a prolific writer, and a scientist. Born Margaret Lucas, she became the second wife of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1645, when he was a marquess. Cavendish was a poet, philosopher, writer of prose romances, essayist, and playwright who published under her own name at a time when most women writers published anonymously. Her writing addressed a number of topics, including gender, power, manners, scientific method, and animal protection. Her romance, The Blazing World, is one of the earliest examples of science fiction. She has been claimed as an advocate for animals and as an early opponent of animal testing. Cavendish was the only known seventeenth century woman to publish numerous books on natural philosophy.

Emerald Davis is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist with a background in nursing. She has a small practice in South London and is the Chair of the Bowlby Centre where she is also a training supervisor. She is passionate about the work and is particularly interested in developing the field of working psychotherapeutically with people with learning disabilities: she also has a keen interest in dissociation.

Leontia Flynn (born ) is a poet from Northern Ireland. She grew up in South Down. Her first book of poems These Days (Jonathan Cape) was published in 2004 and won the Forward Poetry Prize for best First Collection. Flynn's second poetry collection Drives (Jonathan Cape) was published in 2008. Her third collection, Profit and Loss, was published in September 2011. It was the Poetry Book Society Choice for Autumn and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.