Jeremy Holmes
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Science |
| Occupation | Psychiatrist, psychotherapist, author |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Professor Jeremy Holmes MD FRCPsych BPC is a psychiatrist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. For 35 years he worked as Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist in the NHS, providing a district psychotherapy service in North Devon, focussing especially on people with Borderline Personality Disorder. He was Chair of the Psychotherapy Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists 1998-2002. Now partially retired, he has a small private practice; set up and co-runs a Masters and now Doctoral psychoanalytic psychotherapy training programme at Exeter University, where he is visiting Professor; and lectures nationally and internationally. He has written 120 + papers and book chapters in the field of Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis, and 15 books including John Bowlby and Attachment Theory (1992), and Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy (2005, co-edited with Glen Gabbard and Judy Beck). His latest is Exploring In Security: Towards an Attachment-informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Routledge 2010). He was recipient of the 2009 New York Attachment Consortium Bowlby-Ainsworth Founders Award. |