Notes on Contributors

Pamela Alexander is a clinical psychologist who has recently returned to private practice in Massachusetts after serving on the faculty at the University of Memphis, the University of Maryland where she was tenured; the University of Pennsylvania; and Wellesley Centers for Women. Her research combines family violence, attachment theory, and psychotherapy outcome. She conducted the first randomised clinical trial of group therapy for incest survivors (funded by the National Institute of Mental Health), designed and evaluated the use of motivational interviewing with male batterers (funded by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute of Justice), and evaluated the US Army's and Marines' New Parent Support Program (a home visitation child abuse prevention programme). She is the author of over fifty peer-reviewed journal articles as well as the book Intergenerational Cycles of Trauma and Violence: An Attachment and Family Systems Perspective (Norton, ). Email: pam.alexander.phd@gmail.com

Orit Badouk Epstein is a UKCP-registered attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a training supervisor, and a training therapist, as well as a teacher, writer, and editor. She trained at the Bowlby Centre, London, where she is the editor of the journal: Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis (Phoenix Publishing House). She runs a private practice and works relationally with individuals and parents. Orit specialises in working with individuals who have experienced extreme abuse and trauma and have displayed symptoms of dissociation. She has written many book chapters and is the co-author of the books: Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs (Karnac, ), Terror Within and Without(Karnac, ), and Shame Matters (Routledge, ).

Hélène Béïnoglou is a psychologist (DESS, Paris X, Université de Nanterre) as well as a teaching analyst at the Hellenic Society of Psychoanalytical Group Psychotherapy. She works with