List of Contributors

Gordon Alderson trained originally as a primary school teacher and then as a psychiatric social worker. After working for some years in forensic mental health settings he trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at The Bowlby Centre. He is a member of The Bowlby Centre where he is currently teaching the third-year clinical seminar and is also a training supervisor. He works in private practice and as an adult psychotherapist for the NHS at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow. He has worked as a group therapist within the NHS and is currently setting up a psychotherapy group for refugees and asylum seekers in conjunction with the Refugee Therapy Centre. E-mail: gordon.alderson@hotmail.co.uk

Orit Badouk Epstein is an attachment based psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a supervisor (UKCP registered), writer, and teacher who specialises in attachment theory and trauma. She teaches attachment theory at the Bowlby Centre, London. She runs a private practice and works relationally with individuals, couples, and parents. Orit has a particular interest in working with individuals who have experienced extreme abuse and trauma and have displayed symptoms of dissociation. She is the co-author of the book, Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: the Manipulation of Attachment Needs (Karnac Books) and co-editor of the book Terror Within & Without. She is the Associate Editor for the Journal Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis and is the co-editor of the ESTD (European Society for Trauma and Dissociation) newsletter where she regularly writes articles and film reviews. E-mail:

Ken Benau, PhD has been a licensed clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area for over twenty-five years. Dr Benau works with children, adolescents, and adults in individual, couple, and family therapy from an integrative perspective, paying special attention to attachment, emotion, somatic experience, and const