Notes on Contributors

Aart G. Broek, PhD (Netherlands, ), received his academic training as a sociologist and literary scholar; has worked as independent academic, teacher, and consultant, as such in the Dutch Caribbean from 1981 through 2001. In 1990 he received his PhD from the Free University in Amsterdam. He has published extensively on Dutch Caribbean social, political, and cultural matters. In his research and advisory profession Broek has concentrated on the social emotion of “shame”, more specifically on the impact of shaming. Email: agbroek@planet.nl

Kate Brown, PhD, is a Bowlby Centre-trained UKCP-registered attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist who started her career in therapeutic communities working with adults and adolescents individually and in groups. She has worked with young mothers and in community psychiatric services with patients' families. She has also worked with former servicemen who had experienced complex trauma. She is a course tutor at The Bowlby Centre, and has delivered freelance training. Kate completed an MSc in psychotherapeutic approaches in mental health in 2012, and completed her PhD at Middlesex University entitled “Where is the love? A psychoanalytic history of the Cotswold Community”.

Richard Cross is a UKCP-registered psychotherapist and child psychotherapist with over thirty years of experience in developing relational-based approaches to addressing attachment, trauma, and dissociation. He is involved in research and development, organisational consultancy, supervision and training. As Director of Clinical Services at Five Rivers Child Care, JSA Psychotherapy & Midhurst Clinical Therapeutic Services, he supports teams of psychologists and psychotherapists. He is a Fellow and faculty member of the International Society for Trauma & Dissociation and a trustee of The Bowlby Centre. Email:

Emerald Davis was born in Guyana and travelled to the UK in September 1958. She trained in the three disciplines of nursing an