Adah Sachs Editor

Warwick Middleton was the primary author of the first published series on patients with dissociative identity disorder to appear in the Australian scientific literature. For over 20 years, he has been the Foundation Director of the Trauma and Dissociation Unit, Belmont Hospital. He is a pioneer researcher in the area of ongoing incest during adulthood; he chairs the Cannan Institute; and is a past president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Adah Sachs is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Her main theoretical contribution is outlining several subcategories of disorganised attachment, and linking those with childhood abuse and with trauma-based mental disorders. She is an NHS consultant and heads the Psychotherapy Service for Redbridge Borough, London, UK. Martin J. Dorahy is Director of the clinical psychology programme at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and current immediate past-president (2018) of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. His published work has primarily explored cognitive and emotional underpinnings of dissociation and dissociative disorders, with a particular focus on shame. His clinical work is focused on the adult outcomes of abuse and neglect.