Jeremy Holmes, MD, MRCP, FRCPsych, is currently a senior clinical lecturer at Bristol University Medical School. Dr. Holmes lectures widely in the UK and internationally, and has published seven books and over sixty papers on psychotherapy.
Jeremy Holmes is the most significant contemporary theorist
currently using attachment theory as a basis for psychotherapeutic
practice. In this book he develops and amplifies Bowlby's original
ideas by linking them to current work in child development and
psychotherapy. In a crucial distinction, he shows that attachment
and intimacy refer to different forms of relating which are
developmentally connected, the form of attachment shaping the later
style of intimate behavior. This maturation is related to the
capacity for narrative.
*Russell Meares*
Holmes not only gives clinicians a fundamental understanding of
attachment theory but demonstrates its applicability to everyday
practice concerns. By describing the characteristics of avoidant
and ambivalent attachment, he helps therapists understand more
fully the difficulties that patients have in achieving,
maintaining, and thriving within a secure base.
*Karen B. Walant*
Attachment theory has finally come into its own in the clinical
setting. The conceptual framework provided by Bowlby, Ainsworth,
and their successors has wide psychotherapeutic applications that
are brilliantly described in this impressive work by Jeremy Holmes.
Much that is chaotic in the clinical setting becomes clear and
understandable when the principles of attachment theory are brought
to bear. To the reader's great good fortune, Holmes's prose style
is a model of clarity so that abstruse concepts are effortlessly
grasped by the reader and the author's humanity shines through.
*Glen O. Gabbard*
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