For three decades, Jeremy Holmes has been a leading figure in psychodynamic psychiatry in the UK and across the world. He has played a central role in promoting the ideas of John Bowlby and in developing the clinical applications – psychiatric and psychotherapeutic – of Attachment Theory in working with adults. Drawing on both psychoanalytic and attachment ideas, Holmes has been able to encompass a truly biopsychosocial perspective.
Key Features
- An extended interview – covering Holmes’ career and philosophy as a psychodynamic psychiatrist.
- 'Juvenilia' – sibling relationships, the psychology of nuclear weapons, and the psychodynamics of surgical intervention.
- Psychodynamic psychiatry: Integrative and Attachment-Informed.
- A psychotherapy section in which he develops his model of psychotherapeutic change.
- 'Heroes' – biographical pieces about the major influences including John Bowlby, Michael Balint, David Malan, Jonathan Pedder, and Charles Rycroft.
- 'Ephemera' – brief pieces covering such topics as frequency of psychodynamic sessions and fees.
Additional Information
Attachments: Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis - The Selected Works of Jeremy Holmes will be essential and illuminating reading for practitioners and students of psychiatry and psychotherapy in all its guises.
