List of Contributors

Orit Badouk Epstein is an 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: orit_badouk@hotmail.com

Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612 in Northamptonshire, England. She married Simon Bradstreet at the age of sixteen. Two years later, along with her husband and parents, she emigrated to America and the family settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts where they raised eight children, and she became one of the first poets to write English verse in the Americas. It was during this time that Bradstreet wrote many of the poems that would be taken to England by her brother-in-law and published in 1650 under the title The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America. Her early work was considered primarily of historical interest but she has won critical acceptance in the twentieth century for her later poetry, which is often deeply personal.

Kate Brown is a Bowlby Centre trained UKCP registered attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist who started her career in therapeutic communities working with adults with a variety of mental health difficulties, and with adolescents individually and in groups. She has worked with young mothers and in mainstream