Reminiscences by John Bowlby: Portraits of Colleagues, 1935-1945 (Previously Unpublished)

Worked in the mental health field for thirty years. He is Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London, and Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of Arts at Roehampton University. He is also the Chair of the British Society of Couple Psychotherapists and Counsellors, the Professional Association of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology. As an historian of psychoanalysis, he has authored D. W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait, which won the Gradiva Award for Biography, and serves as Co-Editor of the Karnac Books History of Psychoanalysis Series. He is also a Trustee of the Freud Museum. He has written or edited five other books including Sex and the Psyche, a study of the traumatic origins of sexual fantasies. He joined the Bowlby Centre (formerly known as the Centre for Attachment-Based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy) as a faculty member in 1991, and since 1992, he has served as its Consultant in Psychology and Psychohistory. He is also a Training Therapist and Supervisor at the Bowlby Centre. His previous publications in Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis include: “The Infanticidal Attachment” (2007), and “Dr. John Bowlby: Personal Reminiscences of a Gentleman Psychoanalyst” (2009). Email: