Notes on Contributors

Matt Aibel, LCSW, is faculty at National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) in New York City, submissions editor of Psychoanalytic Perspectives, and editor of The IARPP Bulletin, the newsletter of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. His writing is published in Psychoanalytic Psychology and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. He has presented at conferences, colloquia, webinars, and workshops at IARPP, the American Psychoanalytic Association, NIP, and elsewhere. He served as NIP's Associate Director of Continuing Education, organising and moderating twenty-five half-day workshops with many of the US's most influential analytic thinkers over a five-year term. He practises in Manhattan and Northport, Long Island. Email: Matt.Aibel@gmail.com

Gordon Alderson is a psychotherapist working in private practice and in the NHS. He trained at The Bowlby Centre during its previous incarnation as The Centre for Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. He has worked extensively in forensic settings and as a group therapist in NHS day services and is a training supervisor. He has also worked as a group therapist with refugees and asylum seekers in North London. Email:

Orit Badouk Epstein is a UKCP-registered attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a trainee supervisor, and a trainee 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 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 books Ritual Ab