“Cross the Bridge to Redefine the Pain”*

Attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist (UKCP registered) and a supervisor working in private practice. She works relationally with individuals, couples, and parents. Orit has a particular interest in working with individuals who have experienced extreme abuse and trauma displaying symptoms of dissociation. She teaches the attachment short course at the Bowlby Centre. Orit is a trustee for the Clinic for Dissociative Studies. She is co-author of the book Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: the Manipulation of Attachment Needs (Karnac) and co-editor of the recently published book Terror Within and Without (Karnac). She is the associate editor for the journal Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis and co-editor of the ESTD (European Society for Trauma and Dissociation) Newsletter where she regularly contributes articles, film, and book reviews. E-mail: