The Occupied Body: On Chronic Fatigue, Co-Regulation and Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)

UKCP registered attachment based psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a training supervisor, and a training therapist. She trained at the Bowlby Centre, London where she is the Editor of the journal Attachment—New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis (published by Karnac). She teaches attachment theory and is the head of the planning group of the International Bowlby Memorial conference. She specialises in attachment theory and trauma and regularly writes and present papers and book chapters on these topics. 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, 2011), co-editor of the book Terror Within & Without (2013), 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: