List of Contributors

Antonia Bifulco is Professor of Lifespan Psychology, Head of Department at Middlesex University, and co-director of the Centre for Abuse and Trauma Studies. Her research interests revolve around the long term impacts of childhood neglect and abuse on emotional distress. She has developed, with her team, interview measures for collecting narrative about life experience and support-based attachment style interviews, which are now used internationally in research and practice. Antonia is involved in knowledge exchange projects with health and social care practice, utilising the assessment interviews to inform risk and resilience assessment and case analysis particularly in child and family services. Her recent book (Bifulco & Thomas, : Understanding Adult Attachment Style in Family Relationships, London: Routledge) outlines two decades of research in attachment style and the lifespan. Antonia currently heads a European Social Research Council project developing an online measure of life stress as well as being involved in an European Community grant looking at impacts of online abuse. E-mail: A.Bifulco@mdx.ac.uk

Arturo Ezquerro is a consultant psychiatrist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, group analyst, and former head of NHS medical psychotherapy services in Brent. He trained with John Bowlby at the Tavistock Clinic . He is currently senior lecturer, assessor, and trainer at the London Institute of Group Analysis; organisational consultant to “Teléfono de la Esperanza”, Rioja, Spain. and educational supervisor and tutor for the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has presented over one hundred papers at international conferences and scientific meetings, has published over fifty articles and book chapters in five languages. His book Tales of Attachment: Encounters with John Bowlby is due to be published at the end of 2015 by Nova Science, New York. E-mail:

James Gunn graduated with a degree in geography from the University of Sheffield in 2003