Still Being Hurt: The Vicious Cycle of Dissociative Disorders, Attachment, and Ongoing Abuse*

UKCP registered attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a member of The Bowlby Centre. She has worked for many years with adults and adolescents in psychiatric care, and is a consultant psychotherapist at the Clinic for Dissociative Studies, a specialist NHS provider for the treatment of dissociative disorders. She is also a visiting lecturer and a training supervisor on the MA programme at the Centre for Child Mental Health and at The Bowlby Centre. She has authored many international presentations and publications on the topics of attachment, dissociation, and abuse, including a co-edited book, Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder (Sachs & Galton, Karnac, 2008). E-mail: