Dr Adah Sachs

Dr. Adah Sachs is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a member of the Bowlby Centre.

She has worked for decades with adults and adolescents in psychiatric care, was a consultant psychotherapist and the Clinic for Dissociative Studies and recently retired from heading the NHS Psychotherapy Service for the London borough of Redbridge.

Her main theoretical contribution is outlining sub-categories of disorganized attachment, as linked with trauma-based mental disorders.

Adah lectures and supervises worldwide on attachment and dissociation. She is the author of over 150 training days, conference papers, book chapters and journal articles, including two co-edited books: Forensic Aspects of DID (2008) and The Abused and the Abuser: Victim-Perpetrator Dynamics (2018).

She is a fellow of the ISSTD.