Thomas Lewis

Trained as a physician and psychiatrist, Thomas Lewis earned a B.A. in psychology and English from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and later received his M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco. His CV also lists internship, residency, and fellowship training at UCSF, along with many years in private outpatient psychiatry and teaching roles in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry.

He is widely known as a co-author of A General Theory of Love, a book that helped bring ideas about attachment and emotional neuroscience to a broad audience. Across his talks, teaching, and writing, he has returned again and again to the links between emotion, memory, attachment, and therapy.

The picture that emerges is of an author who writes from both clinical experience and literary interest. With a background that spans psychology, medicine, and English, he has focused on making complex ideas about the mind feel understandable, relevant, and alive.