Professor Jeremy Holmes MD FRCPsych BPC is a psychiatrist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. For 35 years he worked as Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist in the NHS, focussing especially on people with Borderline Personality Disorder.  He was Chair of the Psychotherapy Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists 1998-2002.  Now partially retired, he teaches on the Masters and Doctoral psychoanalytic psychotherapy training and research programme at Exeter University, where he is visiting Professor; and lectures nationally and internationally. He has written more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and chapters in the field of Attachment and Psychoanalytic psychotherapy.  His many books, translated into 7 languages, include The Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy (co-editors Glen Gabbard and Judy Beck, 2005), Storr’s The Art of Psychotherapy (Taylor & Francis 2012; ‘highly commended’, bma medical books of the year) and Exploring in Security: Towards an Attachment-informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Routledge 2010; winner Canadian Psychological Association Goethe Award).  A 6-volume compendium of the most important papers in Attachment (Benchmarks in Psychology: Attachment Theory, SAGE), co-edited with Arietta Slade, and the second edition of his classic John Bowlby and Attachment Theory (Routledge). His most recent publications include The Therapeutic Imagination: Using Literature to Deepen Psychodynamic Understanding and Enhance Empathy, and Attachments: Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis (both Routledge).  He was recipient of the 2009 New York Attachment Consortium Bowlby-Ainsworth Founders Award.