Disorganised Attachment and Complex Trauma
with Orit Badouk Epstein
Key Info
Weekend Course
Sat 8 MAR 2025
Sun 9 MAR 2025
10.00 – 16.00
In person
Follow-up
Wed 19 MAR 2025
Wed 2 APR 2025
17.30 – 19.30
On-line Supervisions
Location
Inner Citadel Institute
25 Wheatley Road
Garsington OX44 9EW
Oxford
Fee
Standard: £600
Public Sector: £510
Trainee: £510
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Overview
The Disorganised attachment classification (U/D:unresolved/disorganised) has generated considerable interest among clinicians. Nevertheless, it has demanded attention from practitioners who often find themselves grappling with challenging dynamics when working with this traumatised client group.
The course will be covering key principles of attachment theory as originated by John Bowlby and then followed up by empirical findings (Main, Solomon, Hesse and others). The course will teach the basic tenets of Disorganised attachment and its characteristics as is often found in clients who suffer complex trauma.
Seminar Content
The course will include the following themes:
– Attachment, Separation and Loss
– Developmental trauma
– Complex Trauma
– Disorganised Attachment
– The role of fear in the attachment relationship
– The role of shame
– Dissociation
– Mentalisation
The in-person teaching across the weekend will be interactive, demonstrating the relationship between trauma, attachment behaviour and loss through case material, films and videos. Clinical work will consider the role of mourning, narrative, mutuality and recognition, affective attunement, and cycles of rupture and repair in the therapeutic process. Following the weekend course, there will be two online group supervision sessions to help embed the learning in therapeutic practice.
The course is delivered over a single weekend and it is in person. The follow-up sesions will be provided as on-line supervisions.
Who is this training for?
The course is aimed for Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists and Social Workers. Maximum 25 participants.
Learning Objectives
- To introduce attachment theory and deepen your understanding of complex trauma.
- To be of practical value with implications for therapy and human relatedness.
Speaker
Orit Badouk Epstein
Orit Badouk Epstein is a UKCP registered psychotherapist who trained at the Bowlby Centre in 2000 as an Attachment-based Psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She is a trainee supervisor, a teacher, editor and a writer. She specialises in attachment-based therapy and complex trauma and regularly lectures and teaches internationally. Orit runs a private practice in London and works relationally with individuals and parents. She has a particular interest in working with individuals who have experienced extreme abuse and trauma and have displayed symptoms of dissociation. Orit was the editor of the journal “Attachment-New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis” and the co-editor of the ESTD newsletter. She co-authored and edited the books: “Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs” (Badouk Epstein, Wingfield & Schwartz, 2011 Karnac), “Terror within & without” (Yellin,Badouk Epstein, 2013, Karnac) and “Shame Matters”, Routledge (2022), which won the Gradiva award in 2023. In her spare time Orit enjoys writing, the cinema, music, reading philosophy and poetry.