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Dr Joan Haliburn is a Consultant Child, Adolescent & Family Psychiatrist, trained in the Conversational Model of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, in the Systems Model of Family Therapy & in Attachment Strange Situation. She is in private practice & is a faculty member of the Complex Trauma Training Unit, University of Sydney at Westmead Clinical School.

Prof Andrew Moskowitz is director of the Forensic Psychology graduate program at George Washington University, former president of the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation & a core member of the WHO ICD-11 dissociative disorders diagnoses task force. He is a renowned expert in the trauma/dissociation field.

Prof van der Hart is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at Utrecht University. Dr van der Hart has worked with colleagues Ellert Nijenhuis, PhD, and Kathy Steele, on a theoretical approach on trauma-related dissociation of the personality and a related treatment model which unifies mental disorders with a traumatic origin.

Dr Nick Bendit is a staff specialist psychiatrist working at the Centre for Psychotherapy (Newcastle), an outpatient public psychotherapy unit offering long-term psychotherapy for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) & eating disorders. He treats patients with BPD using the Conversational Model and DBT, as well as supervising mental health clinicians in the management of patients with BPD.

Dr Lynne Jacobs is a both gestalt therapist and a relational psychoanalyst based in Los Angeles. She has long been interested in the relational dimension of psychotherapy, and in integrating humanistic theories with contemporary psychoanalytic theories. She has published numerous articles in both realms, and her most recent work is Relational Approaches in Gestalt Therapy (co-edited with Rich Hycner).

Prof Jennifer Freyd, PhD, is an influential researcher, author, activist, and speaker. She is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Oregon, and Founder and President of the Center for Institutional Courage. An internationally renowned scholar, Freyd is best known for her theories of representational momentum, betrayal trauma, institutional betrayal, institutional courage, and DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim & Offender).

Kris Rao is a psychotherapist & a psychoanalyst primarily providing long term therapy for complex trauma disorders. He is also a clinical supervisor for the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy (ANZAP) training program. Kris teaches ethics & psychodynamic psychotherapy as adjunct faculty at universities and higher education institutions across Australia and New Zealand.

Allison Merrick, Ph.D., Psy.D., RP, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University, San Marcos and a trained Research Psychoanalyst with a private practice. She is the author of the forthcoming book Nietzsche on the Methods and Aims of Philosophy: The Seal of Liberation (Cambridge University Press) and the co-editor of Nietzsche and Politicized Identities (2024) and of “Shame: Sources and Trajectories” a special issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry (2024).

Daniel Shaw is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York and is a faculty member & supervisor at The National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York. His book, Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation, was nominated for the distinguished Gradiva Award, Shaw’s recent book, entitled Traumatic Narcissism and Recovery: Leaving the Prison of Shame and Fear, was published by Routledge in 2021.

Zern has three decades of multidisciplinary professional practice across Counselling, Design, and Business. He consults with clients to solve “wicked problems” in their professional and personal lives. He also writes, teaches Counselling at university, facilitates alcohol/drugs counselling groups, and sits on the board of Men’s Health and Wellbeing WA. Zern is currently working on an interdisciplinary PhD in Psychology. He has a Master in Counselling and tertiary qualifications in Business Management and Design.

Dr Jackie Amos is a child, adolescent and family psychiatrist, gestalt psychotherapist and clinical academic with more than 25 years’ experience working psychotherapeutically with individual adults and children and families caught in intergenerational cycles of neglect and abuse. She has worked in both government child and adolescent mental health and intensive family support service settings. Jackie is now leading the implementation of her research in Centacare, a large NGO in Adelaide, using the theoretical model to inform the development of therapeutic case workers. These workers utilise psychotherapeutic approaches within a social casework model in an attempt toincrease access for vulnerable families to combined therapeutic and practical help.

Paul M. Martin, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and the assistant director of The Center for Grief Recovery. He specializes in individual psychotherapy for those struggling with loss and grief and regularly offers continuing education workshops and case consultation for professionals working with complicated cases of bereavement. He also provides psychological debriefing in workplace settings that have experienced a death amidst their workforce and is sought after as an expert witness in litigation involving sudden and traumatic loss. Dr. Martin is an adjunct faculty member at both Northwestern University and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology where he teaches psychology coursework on psychopathology, psychodynamic theory and intervention, developmental psychology, and the psychology of loss, grief, and mourning. Dr. Martin is the author of Personal Grief Rituals: Creating Unique Expressions of Grief and Meaningful Acts of Mourning.

Dr Jamie is a GP, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and one of Australia’s most experienced prescribers and educators of cannabinoid medicine. His primary interest is the development and integration of effective therapeutic interventions that include mindbody medicine, psychotherapy and the considered use of novel pharmacological adjuncts to assist therapists in the treatment of trauma.

Dr. Lynda Chassler is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP) in Los Angeles. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work. Dr. Chassler maintains a private practice in Beverly Hills, California, where she specializes in treating complex clinical presentations rooted in early developmental failures. Her clinical focus includes primitive mental states, eating disorders, and borderline and narcissistic personality structures. Dr. Chassler is particularly known for her work on the psychological underpinnings of disordered eating and has published in the area of eating disorders, contributing to the psychoanalytic understanding of these challenging conditions.

Christine A. Courtois, PhD, a counseling psychologist, is retired from clinical practice and now serves as a consultant/trainer on trauma psychology and treatment. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Dr. Courtois is a past president of APA Division 56 (Trauma Psychology) and served as Chair of the APA’s Clinical Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Adults. She is coeditor of Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Adults, Second Edition, and Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Children and Adolescents, and coauthor of Treatment of Complex Trauma: A Sequenced, Relationship-Based Approach.

Dr Kevin is a counsellor, psychotherapist, supervisor and academic. He completed his PhD in 2017 at the University of Sydney focusing on theoretical questions around the status of post-infancy preschool developments within Attachment Theory. His academic interests also include emotions research, philosophy of science and the empirical status of longer-term psychotherapy.

Dr Darren Haber is a psychoanalyst practicing in Los Angeles. He specializes in treating childhood trauma, addiction (including children/partners of alcoholics) and anxiety/depression. He has appeared numerous times in the journal Psychoanalysis, Self and Context. He frequently guest-teaches psychoanalytical classes and seminars. His book “Circles Without a Center” will be published by Routledge in 2022.

David Schreiber is a psychologist and a psychoanalyst in private practice in Santa Monica. He is a faculty member of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. David is currently affiliated with Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association, the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.

Simon Heyland is a UK consultant psychiatrist in medical psychotherapy and works in a tertiary NHS service delivering specialist psychotherapies. He has a special interest in psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy (PIT) which he teaches, supervises and delivers. He is the current chair of PIT-UK. With colleagues he has pioneered MUS services in primary and secondary acute care settings. He has published on topics including the therapeutic alliance, psychodynamic technique, psychotherapy research, and medically unexplained symptoms. He is the co-author of the 2017 Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health MUS commissioning guide, and author of the chapter on MUS in the 2021 edition of the RCPsych textbook ‘Seminars In The Psychotherapies’.

Dr. Lisa J. Cohen is clinical professor of psychiatry at the Carl Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, working at the Mount Sinai Beth Israel location. Dr. Cohen has long been involved with clinically relevant research in a wide range of topics relevant to psychiatry and psychology. Her more recent research domains have included suicide risk, personality pathology, childhood maltreatment and pedophilia. Dr. Cohen is an author on over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and three books. Her most recent book, titled The Psychotherapy of Personality Disorders: Emergent Systems Theory as an Integrative Framework was published in 2022 by Lexington Books.

Lisa is an accredited mental health social worker, psychotherapist, and author of Finding My Invisible Sun: Overcoming Trauma. Lisa has lived experience of trauma (childhood sexual abuse), mental illness and institutionalised discrimination. Lisa has practised therapy for 15 years: 11 years within the D&FV prevention service and 4 years as an accredited mental health social worker. Prior to practising therapy, Lisa taught English, history, and drama to secondary school students and transitioned to teaching students with special needs. As a self-professed idealist and opportunistic dissident intellectual, Lisa encourages people to grasp every opportunity to challenge the status quo.

Prof MelanieTuner is a Clinical Associate Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Adelaide and works as a child and adolescent psychiatrist in private practice. She holds a range of positions including Deputy Chief Psychiatrist Inspections and Investigations of the Office of the Chief Psychiatrist of South Australia; Board Member of the Medical board of South Australia; Elected Board Director of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Board Member Mental Health Australia and Presiding Member of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board in South Australia. Prof Turner has also completed a PhD in Perinatal Psychiatry at the University of Adelaide and is widely published. Prof Turner teaches at University of Adelaide and to trainee psychiatrists.

Dr Valerie Sinason is a widely published poet, writer, child and adolescent therapist (retired) and adult psychoanalyst. She has specialised in trauma and disability for forty years and lectures nationally and internationally. Founder and now Patron of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies UK, President of the Institute for Psychotherapy and Disability, she is also on the Board of the ISSTD, from whom she received the lifetime achievement award in 2017, the newsletter of the ESTD and a member of the BPC where she received the 2022 Innovation excellence award. She was formerly a consultant psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic and St Georges Hospital Medical School where she ran disability psychotherapy courses and clinical work.

Orit Badouk Epstein is a UKCP registered, Attachment Based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, a training supervisor, training therapist, editor, and a writer. Orit has been the editor of the journal Attachment- New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychotherapy. Orit has published many book chapters, articles, film reviews, newsletters, and edited various books. Her recent co-authored and edited book is Shame matters: Attachment and Relational Perspective for Psychotherapists, Routledge (2022) won the Gradiva award. Orit runs a private practice in London and specialises in complex trauma and works with individuals who suffered extreme abuse and who have been diagnosed with DID. Orit teaches Attachment theory and complex trauma courses at the Bowlby Centre and various organisations.

Dr Graham, is a medical psychotherapist with over twenty five years’ experience, primarily providing long term psychotherapy. He is a Fellow of the Australian College of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Lecturer at Sydney University. He is a Supervisor for the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy (ANZAP), and a past President. He has published his work both locally and internationally.

Peter McKay is a Somatic Psychotherapist based in Melbourne, Australia. His work incorporates principles of attachment, trauma, Self Psychology, and intersubjectivity, with a special emphasis on the somatic experience. His work extends to parents facing familial challenges. He also specializes in working with trauma and enhancing performance through the Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM) therapy.

Dr Daniel Goldin is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Los Angeles, where he treats adults, adolescents, and children, with a special interest in helping those in recovery. In a previous career, he wrote feature screenplays for most of the major Hollywood studios. More recently, he has also written for the LA Times, the Huffington Post, and The International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.

Professor Middleton holds appointments as Professor in the School of Medicine, University of Queensland, as well as Adjunct Professor – at the School of Public Health, La Trobe University; School of Behavioral, Cognitive & Social Sciences, University of New England; and, Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury. He has made substantial and ongoing contributions to the bereavement and trauma literatures, and was with Dr Jeremy Butler author of the first published series in the Australian scientific literature detailing the abuse histories and clinical phenomenology of patients fulfilling diagnostic criteria for Dissociative Identity Disorder. Professor Middleton chairs The Cannan Institute. He is a Past President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), the world’s oldest international trauma society, and is a recipient of that Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Widely published, he is currently the joint editor, with Martin Dorahy, of, Contemporary Perspectives on the Seduction Theory and Psychoanalysis: Revisiting Masson’s ‘The Assault on Truth’ (Routledge), which is due for publication in 2024.

Martin Dorahy is a clinical psychologist and professor in the School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He has a clinical, research and theoretical interest in complex trauma, dissociative disorders and self-conscious emotions (e.g., shame). He has published peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and co-edited six books in the area of psychotraumatology, including most recently, Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorder: Past, Present, Future, 2nd Ed (with Steve Gold and John O’Neil; 2023) and Contemporary Perspectives on the Seduction Theory and Psychotherapy: Revisiting ‘The Assault on Truth’ (with Warwick Middleton). He is a Fellow and Past President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD). He maintains a clinical practice, focused primarily on the adult sequelae of childhood relational trauma.

Richard P. Kluft, M.D., Ph.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Temple University School of Medicine, practices in Bala Cynwyd, PA. He teaches at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, where he has been a Waiver Training Analyst, and at the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance. Dr. Kluft is the author of over 280 professional publications. His book, Shelter from the Storm, explored a compassionate approach to the abreaction of trauma. His edited books include Childhood Antecedents of Multiple Personality and Incest-Related Syndromes of Adult Psychopathology, and, with Catherine G. Fine, Ph.D., Clinical Perspectives on Multiple Personality Disorder. Founder and former Editor-in-Chief of DISSOCIATION, Dr. Kluft has also held editorial positions with the International Journal of Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis, and the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. He was a co-founder and President of the ISST&D, and has been President of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. He chaired 14th International Congress of Hypnosis for the International Society of Hypnosis. His published research, clinical contributions, and teaching have received numerous awards.