Notes on Contributors

Ruth A. Blizard, PhD, is a psychologist practising in the Binghamton, New York, area with over thirty-five years of experience in treating persons with severe trauma, dissociation, and personality disorders. She has a BA in psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a PhD from Alliant University, Fresno. She has published articles integrating psychoanalytic concepts and attachment theory in the treatment of trauma, dissociation, and psychosis. She has taught the official ISSTD course, “Diagnosis and treatment of dissociative disorders,” and has presented internationally on trauma, attachment, borderline personality, psychosis, and the spectrum of dissociative disorders. She served as editor of the newsletters of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, and Division 56 of the APA, Trauma Psychology. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation. She enjoys folk music, hiking, bicycling, kayaking, and most of all, being a grandmother. Email: rblizard@hancock.net

Kate Brown is a Bowlby Centre trained UKCP-registered attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She started her career in therapeutic communities working with adults with a variety of mental health difficulties, and with adolescents individually and in groups. She has worked with young mothers and in mainstream community psychiatric services with patients' families. She has also provided time limited therapy with former servicemen who had experienced complex trauma. Kate completed an MSc in psychotherapeutic approaches in mental health in 2012. She is a former member of the Attachment journal group, former chair of the clinical forum at the Bowlby Centre and PhD candidate at Middlesex University. Kate has also taught various modules of the clinical training at the Bowlby Centre and delivers freelance training. Kate is a member of the executive committee of the International Attachment Network (UK). She is in private practice in Bournemout