Notes on Contributors

Gordon Alderson trained originally as a primary school teacher and then as a psychiatric social worker. After working for some years in forensic mental health settings he trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He is a member of The Bowlby Centre where he has previously taught and supervised trainees. After many years working within the NHS he now works solely in private practice. He is a trustee of the Refugee Therapy Centre. Email: gordon.alderson@hotmail.co.uk

Aysha Begum, PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsP, is a principal clinical psychologist and systemic practitioner working in the National Health Service with children/young people, parents/couples, and families. She brings twenty years' clinical, teaching, and academic experience to her current role as Psychology Lead in a large inner-city Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. Her academic specialty is in psychiatric epidemiology and her clinical interests are in motherhood, fatherhood, and parental mental health. She is also a UKCP-registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a Bowlby Centre member with a private practice where she works with individual adults, adolescents, couples, and families. She is the editor-in-chief of Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis.

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Kate Brown is a Bowlby Centre-trained, UKCP-registered, attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist who started her career in therapeutic communities working with adults with a variety of mental health difficulties, as well as a seminar leader at The Bowlby Centre, where she has delivered freelance training. Kate completed an MSc in psychotherapeutic approaches in mental health in 2012. Kate has recently completed a PhD at Middlesex University. Kate is also on the executive committee of the International Attachment Network (UK). Kate is in private practice in Bournemouth, and author of various articles. Email:

Adriano Bugliani, PhD, earned a doctorate in moral phi