Events and Seminars

Cost: £540 Organisations, £480 Individuals, £400 Bowlby Centre members.

Orit Badouk Epstein is an Attachment based Psychoanalytic psychotherapist (UKCP registered) and a supervisor working in private practice. She works relationally with individuals, couples and parents. Orit has a particular interest and passion for working with individuals who have experienced extreme abuse and trauma displaying symptoms of dissociation. Orit is a trustee for the Clinic of Dissociative Studies. She is co- author of the book “Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: the Manipulation of Attachment Needs” (Karnac Books) and co-editor of the recently published book ‘Terror within & without’. She is the associate editor for Journal Attachment New Direction and on the editorial board of the ESTD (European Society for Trauma and Dissociation) where she regularly writes articles and film and book reviews.

Emma Starck is an attachment- based psychoanalytic psychotherapist and has been in private practice for 9 years. She has been a member of the Reflections addiction specialist team for 3 years. She has a background in teaching physics to high school students and now teaches adults on The Bowlby Centre clinical training. Emma has completed a play and creative arts course with the Lila institute and uses sand tray and art to enhance her understanding of the psychotherapeutic process. Emma attended the Society for Analytical Psychology for her supervision training and supervises adults who work with the children who help make up the inspirational charity Kids Company. Seminars will include the following themes • Introductions – our relationship to attachment theory. • Attachment theory in context • Separation, loss and mourning • Patterns of attachment and their internal representation • Secure • Dismissing • Preoccupied • Unresolved/disorganised • Not classifiable • Evaluating adult attachment states of mind • Internal working models • Reflective functioning • Intersubjectivity

Clinical work will consider the role of mourning, narrative, mutuality and recognition, affective attunement and cycles of rupture and repair in the therapeutic process.

Tel: 020 7700 5070

E-mail: admin@thebowlbycentre.org.uk