Attachment theory in clinical practice with Orit Badouk Epstein
This two-day, in-person weekend workshop will teach the core principles of attachment theory and how to work with attachment in your clinical practice.
The in-person teaching across the weekend will be interactive, demonstrating 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 will prompt you on how to work with attachment in your clinical practice and it will include the following themes:
- Attachment theory in historical context
- John Bowlby’s core ideas on attachment, separation, loss and mourning
Internal Workings Models - The secure base
- Empirical research and Ainsworth’s and Main’s patterns of attachment and their internal representation: Secure, Avoidant, Preoccupied, Unresolved/disorganised, Not classifiable
- Evaluating adult attachment states of mind (AAI)
- Additional building blocks to attachment theory: Affect regulation, Intersubjectivity, Mentalisation
The course is delivered over a single weekend and it is in person. The follow-up sessions will be provided as online supervisions.
About the 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, an 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.