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Bowlby's trilogy

Part of: BJPsych Advances Memory Lane Articles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2023

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Jeremy Holmes*
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A consultant psychiatrist and medical psychotherapist at UCL, London, and in north Devon, UK. He researched the life and work of John Bowlby with the help of a Wellcome Trust fellowship. He was chair of the Faculty of Psychotherapy of the Royal College of Psychiatrists between 1998 and 2002 and is an Honorary Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Exeter, UK. Author of over 250 peer-reviewed papers and 21 books, he was recipient of a Bowlby-Ainsworth Founders Award in 2009.
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Correspondence Jeremy Holmes. Email: j.a.holmes@btinternet.com
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Summary

John Bowlby's ‘Attachment and Loss’ trilogy set the scene for half a century of attachment research and theorising. This article picks out the key themes of his work – the attachment dynamic, the impact of trauma and life events, defensive exclusion, loss and bereavement, and internal working models – and points to their continuing relevance.

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History of psychiatrychild and adolescent psychiatrypsychosocial interventionsanxiety or fear-related disorderscarers

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BJPsych Advances , Volume 30 , Issue 5 , September 2024 , pp. 326 - 328
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Royal College of Psychiatrists

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