Alla Rubitel MD MRCPsych, is a locum consultant psychiatrist in forensic psychotherapy at the Portman Clinic and locum consultant psychiatrist in psychotherapy at the Gordon Hospital, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. Her interests include psychoanalytic approaches to understanding and treating patients suffering from perversions, violence and delinquency, offenders with personality disorder, supervision and teaching of medical and non medical staff, and research on the Adult Attachment Interview. She is a psychoanalyst in private practice.