Notes on contributors

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 specialises in attachment theory and trauma and regularly lectures, teaches, writes and present papers and book chapters on these topics, and consults worldwide on attachment theory. 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. In her spare time Orit enjoys reading philosophy, poetry, and cinema. Email:

Arnon Bentovim trained at the Maudsley Hospital/Institute in psychiatry, and subsequently as a psychoanalyst, and in systemic/family therapy researching family description and therapeutic approaches. Following his appointment at Great Ormond Street and the Tavistock Clinic, Arnon took responsibility for the management of child protection in the hospital, establishing the first Child Sexual Abuse Assessment and Treatment Service in the UK, researching the development of sexually abusive behaviour in young people. He and colleagues established Child & Family Training, UK, to promote multidisciplinary training of evidence-based approaches to assessment, analysis, and intervention. The Hope for Children and Family (HfCF) intervention resources enhances the quality of their direct work, and empowers practitioners, children, young people, and their families to promot