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Attachments: Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis The selected works of Jeremy Holmes

By Jeremy Holmes Copyright 2015
266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Preface. Part I: Autobiographical. Interview with Dianna Kelly. 10 Books. Part II: Juvenilia. Varicose Veins: An Optional Illness. The Sibling and Psychotherapy. The Psychology of Nuclear Disarmament: A Case Study. Section III: Psychodynamic Psychiatry. An Introduction to Psychodynamic Psychiatry. Depression. Psychosis. Narrative in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy: The Evidence? Psychodynamic Psychiatry: Rise, Decline, Revival. Part IV: Psychotherapy: Integrative and Attachment-Informed. Family and Iindividual Therapy: Comparisons and Contrasts. Psychoanalysis and CBT: Confluence or Watershed? Integration in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy – An Attachment Meta-Perspective. Superego: An Attachment Perspective. Relational Psychoanalysis. Part V: Heroes. John Bowlby’s Trilogy. Anthony Storr. David Malan and Brief Dynamic Therapy. Michael Balint. Jonathan Pedder. Charles Rycroft. Part VI: Ephemera. Untied. In praise of ‘Low Intensity’ Ssychotherapy. How Much do you Charge? The ‘Good Enough’ Doctor. What Exactly do You do?

Biography

Jeremy Holmes worked for 35 years as a consultant psychiatrist and medical psychotherapist in the NHS. He is currently Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter, UK, and lectures nationally and internationally. Recent publications include The Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy, Storr’s The Art of Psychotherapy, Exploring in Security: Towards an attachment-informed psychoanalytic psychotherapy and The Therapeutic Imagination: Using literature to deepen psychodynamic understanding.