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 (CAPP). He is a member of the Bowlby Centre where he has taught 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. Email: gordon.alderson@hotmail.co.uk

Orit Badouk Epstein is a 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. 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), co-editor of the book Terror Within and Without, and is the co-editor of the ESTD (European Society for Trauma and Dissociation) newsletter where she regularly writes articles and film reviews. Email:

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,