Dr Jean Knox is a psychiatrist and a Jungian analyst with a relational and attachment-based approach.  Her PhD on the effect of emotion on memory and perception was at the Psychoanalysis Unit at UCL, supervised by Professor Peter Fonagy.

She is Honorary Associate Professor at theUniversity of Exeter, for the Doctorate in Clinical Practice and the Professional Qualifying Training in Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and is Chair of the Trustees of the British Psychotherapy Foundation.

She was Editor-in -Chief of the Journal of Analytical Psychology and has written and taught extensively on the relevance of research in attachment theory and developmental neuroscience to psychotherapy theory and practice. Her book Archetype, Attachment, Analysis: Jungian Psychology and the Emergent Mind was published in 2003. Her book ‘Self-Agency in Psychotherapy: Attachment, Autonomy and Intimacy’ was published in December 2011, in the WW Norton Interpersonal Neurobiology series. 

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