Jeremy Holmes worked for 35 years as a consultant psychiatrist and medical psychotherapist in the National Health Service. He is currently visiting professor at the University of Exeter, UK, where…

Informed by wide clinical experience, and written with the author’s well known humanity and lucidity, these lectures provide an invaluable introduction to Bowlby’s work, as well practical guidance for parents…

A vivid and engrossing account of Darwin’s inner life and his search for the laws of life. We feel the durable texture of his friendships and family attachments, and we…

This accessible book draws on unique evidence from oral histories and little-known archive material to shed new light on the working relationships which led to John Bowlby’s shift from psychoanalysis…

The second volume of Attachment and Loss continues Bowlby’s work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health and considers separation and the anxiety that accompanies it: the…

The Power of Group Attachment provides evidence for the fundamental role that interpersonal and group attachment have played in our survival and evolution as individuals, groups, organisations, and species.

This book contains a selection of the Sigmund Freud Memorial Lectures on psychoanalytic psychology delivered by eminent British, French and American analysts, pointing out that there is a tendency to…