Exploring in Security

Jeremy Holmes is a Psychiatrist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published prolifically in the field of Attachment Theory and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Now retired from the NHS, he co-runs the postgraduate degree and qualifying course in psychodynamic psychotherapy at Exeter University, and has a small private practice. In 2009 he received the prestigious Bowlby-Ainsworth Award for his contributions to the field of attachment.

• Part I: Principles. Assuming. Mentalising. Attaching. Meaning. Changing. Empowering. Repairing. Poetising. Part II: Practice. Sex and Loving. 'Borderlining'. Suicide and Self-harming. Dreaming. Ending. Epilogue.

"The richness of this book lies in the way that Holmes uses and reflects on a diverse range of theory... Holmes does not take one theoretical perspective and build from this but rather interweaves and critically engages with analytic theorists in relations to his attachment based concepts. His aim, which he certainly fulfils, is to go not just beyond a conversation about theory but to develop a framework of psychoanalysis within the therapeutic community and build and develop both theory, and perhaps more importantly, practice in relation to therapeutic work." – Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 55, 2010"This book is genuinely rich and will appeal to students as much as to seasoned clinicians, both to learn from and quarrel with. A helpfully detailed index allows the book to be used as an ongoing resource... The book portrays an infectious delight in exploring theory, in thinking about thinking and awakening clients' curiosity to generate reparative meanings." - Gabrielle Brown, Therapy Today, June 2010"Exploring in Security concentrates on clinical uses of attachment theory within individual psychotherapy. Like its predecessors, it rarely disappoints... As he writes about these clinical lessons, what he offers is rich, complex and balanced in ways that soften conceptions of new or old." - Chris Mace, British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 197, 2010