South-West Psychotherapy Seminars in association with
The Association of Cornwall Psychotherapists
Attachment, Neuroscience and 21st Century
Psychotherapy
A seminar presented by Professor Jeremy Holmes on Saturday 24th
October 2015 at the Eden Project.
21st Century psychotherapy is a practice in search of a theory. The morning will be
divided into two halves. In the didactic part Jeremy Holmes will review how
contemporary neuroscience and Attachment research provide the building blocks of
a clinically-relevant theory, and make links with Independent and Relational
Psychoanalysis. The second half will consist of ‘live supervision’, in which members
of the audience have a chance to talk about their own clinical experience in the light
of the theoretical presentation.
Biography
Professor Jeremy Holmes MD FRCPsych BPC
For 35 years Jeremy was Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist in the NHS
first at UCL and then in N Devon. He was Chair of the Psychotherapy Faculty of the
Royal College of Psychiatrists 1998-2002. He set up and teaches on the
Masters/Doctoral Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training and Research Programme
at Exeter University; where he is visiting Professor; and lectures nationally and
internationally.
He has written 200 + peer reviewed papers and chapters in the field of Attachment
Theory and Psychoanalytic psychotherapy. His many books, translated into 9
languages, include the best-selling John Bowlby and Attachment Theory (1993/2013
2nd Edition, Routledge), The Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy (2005, co-editors
Glen Gabbard and Judy Beck), Storr’s The Art of Psychotherapy (Taylor & Francis
2012). Exploring In Security: Towards an Attachment-informed Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy (Routledge 2010) won the 2010 Canadian Psychological Association
Goethe Award. 2013 saw the 6-volume compendium of the 100 most important
papers in Attachment (Benchmarks in Psychology: Attachment Theory, SAGE, coedited with A. Slade).
His 2014 books are: The Therapeutic Imagination: Using Literature to Deepen
Psychodynamic Understanding and Enhance Empathy, Attachments: Psychiatry,
Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis (both Routledge) and Psychiatry, Past, Present and
Prospect (co-editors S. Bloch and S. Green), Oxford. He was recipient of the 2009
New York Attachment Consortium Bowlby-Ainsworth Founders Award, and the 2013
BJP Rozsika Parker Prize.
The seminar will be of interest to psychotherapists, counsellors and all those working
in related fields.
Registration from 10am. Seminar 10.30am - 1pm.
Fee: £40 including tea and coffee. Students half price.
Directions to the Eden Project can be found at: www.edenproject.com. The seminar is in
the Foundation building. Parking is in Pineapple car park, first on the left near the
entrance to Eden. When you get to the car park itself the pineapple sign is at the back of
the parking area and easy to miss. The Foundation building is about 5 minutes walk from
the car park.
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