Notes on Contributors

Caroline Adewole is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist (UKCP registered), clinical supervisor, and mentor. She trained at The Bowlby Centre where she is currently a course tutor and a member of the Clinical Training Committee. Caroline is interested in working with the different relationships formed and developed through the life-cycle. She is also a trainer and parent facilitator and has worked extensively with families. She has developed and runs attachment-based courses and workshops on topics pertaining to family life and especially in the area of parenting. She also has a private practice in North London. Email: caroline.adewole@gmail.com

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 recently published a chapter “Trauma work via the lens of attachment theory: gaslight-reality distortion by familiar attachment figures” in Approaches to Psychic Trauma, edited by B. Huppertz. She is the co-editor of the ESTD (European Society for Trauma and Dissociation) newsletter where she regularly writes articles and film reviews. Email:

Mauricio Cortina, MD, Facu