Jeremy Holmes is a British psychiatrist, born in London in 1943. He trained at Cambridge University and University College London

University College London

University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...

. He currently practices as a Consultant Psychotherapist in North Devon. He also holds the post of Visiting Professor at University College London

University College London

University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...

 (UCL) 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 (1993)
• 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
  Attachment theory
  Attachment theory describes the dynamics of long-term relationships between humans. Its most important tenet is that an infant needs to develop a relationship with at least one primary caregiver for social and emotional development to occur normally. Attachment theory is an interdisciplinary study...
  
   and modern psychoanalytical theory and demonstrate how attachment theory can be used in psychotherapeutic practice.

He also co-wrote The Values of Psychotherapy (Studies in Bioethics) with R.D. Hinshelwood, and Richard Lindley

Richard Lindley

Richard Lindley was born in Manchester in 1949. He studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford.Richard Lindley is the author of various books including:...

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