Dr Jeremy Holmes MD FRCPsych BPC is a psychiatrist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. For 35 years he worked as Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist in the NHS, providing a district psychotherapy service in North Devon, 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 has a small private practice; set up and co-runs a Masters and now Doctoral psychoanalytic psychotherapy training programme at Exeter University, where he is visiting Professor; and lectures nationally and internationally. He has written 150 + peer reviewed papers and chapters in the field of attachment theory and psychoanalysis, and 16 books including John Bowlby and Attachment Theory (1992), and Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy (2005, co-edited with Glen Gabbard and Judy Beck). His latest is Exploring In Security: Towards an Attachment-informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Routledge 2010), which won the 2010 Canadian Psychological Association Goethe Award for books published in the field of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy (and is being translated into German). He was recipient of the 2009 New York Attachment Consortium Bowlby-Ainsworth Founders Award.