Events and Seminars

Professor Jeremy Holmes MD FRCPsych BPC has for 35 years worked as Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist in the NHS. He was Chair of the Psychotherapy Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 1998-2002. Now partially retired, he is visiting Professor on the Masters/Doctoral psychoanalytic psychotherapy training and research programme at Exeter University, and lectures nationally and internationally.

He has written 180 + peer reviewed papers and chapters in the field of Attachment Theory and Psychoanalytic psychotherapy. His many books, translated into 7 languages, include best-selling: John Bowlby and Attachment Theory (1993/2013, 2nd Edition, Routledge), The Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy (2005, co-editors Glen Gabbard and Judy Beck), Storr’s The Art of Psychotherapy (Taylor & Francis 2012) and Exploring In Security: Towards an Attachment-informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Routledge 2010) which won the 2010 Canadian Psychological Association Goethe Award.

2014 saw the 6-volume compendium of the 100 most important papers in Attachment (Benchmarks in Psychology: Attachment Theory, SAGE, co-edited with A. Slade, Literature and the Therapeutic Imagination, and Attachments: Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis (both Routledge).

He was recipient of the 2009 New York Attachment Consortium Bowlby-Ainsworth Founders Award.