Professor Jeremy Holmes MD was formerly Consultant Psychiatrist/Medical Psychotherapist at University College London (UCL) and Chair of the Psychotherapy Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. His books include John Bowlby and Attachment Theory and The Brain Has a Mind of its Own (Confer Books, 2020)

In The Spirit of Psychotherapy, Holmes considers whether the principles which underpin religion this can be applied to the largely secular world of psychotherapy.