Dr Valerie Sinason Editor & Author

Adah Sachs is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, previously NHS consultant and psychotherapy lead for the London borough of Redbridge. She has authored over 100 conference papers, book chapters and journal articles and is a fellow of the ISSTD. Dr Valerie Sinason is a widely published writer and psychoanalyst. She is President of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability, Founder Director and now Patron of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies and on the Board of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) where she received a lifetime achievement award in 2016. The Truth About Trauma and Dissociation: Everything You Didn’t Want to Know and Were Afraid to Ask (Confer 2020) won the Frank W Putnam award. Trauma and Memory: The Science and the Silenced was co-edited with Ashley Conway for Routledge (2021).