Jeremy Holmes

Professor Jeremy Holmes MD was formerly Consultant Psychiatrist/Medical Psychotherapist at University College London (UCL) and Chair of the Psychotherapy Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. His books include John Bowlby and Attachment Theory and The Brain Has a Mind of its Own (Confer Books, 2020). He is a retired UK National Health Service Consultant Psychiatrist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He now works in private practice seeing patients once a week, and he is a visiting Professor at the School of Psychology at the University of Exeter, where he help set up a psychoanalytic psychotherapy Masters and now Doctoral programme, combining academic with professional training in psychoanalytic work, especially for those working in the public sector.