Jeremy Holmes

Who is Jeremy Holmes?

Jeremy Holmes is a British psychiatrist, born in London in 1943. He trained at Cambridge University and University College London. He currently practices as a Consultant Psychotherapist in North Devon. He also holds the post of Visiting Professor at University College London and was Senior Clinical Research Fellow at Peninsula Medical School until 2003.

He is the author of a number of books including:

John Bowlby and Attachment Theory. Routledge. 1993. ISBN 9780415077293.

The Search for the Secure Base: Attachment Theory and Psychotherapy. 2001.

Exploring in Security. 2010. - winner of the 2010 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship - A book which attempts to bring together attachment theory and modern psychoanalytical theory and demonstrate how attachment theory can be used in psychotherapeutic practice.

He also co-wrote The Values of Psychotherapy with R.D. Hinshelwood, and Richard Lindley.