Focusing on the hottest topics in psychotherapy--attachment,
developmental neuroscience, trauma, the developing brain--this book
provides a window into the ideas of one of the best-known writers on
these topics. Following Allan Schore's very successful books on affect
regulation and dysregulation, also published by Norton, this is the
third volume of the trilogy. It offers a representative collection of
essential expansions and elaborations of regulation theory, all written
since 2005.
As in the first two volumes of this series, each chapter represents a
further development of the theory at a particular point in time,
presented in chronological order. Some of the earlier chapters have been
re-edited: those more recent contain a good deal of new material that
has not been previously published.
The first part of the book, Affect Regulation Therapy and Clinical
Neuropsychoanalysis, contains chapters on the art of the craft, offering
interpersonal neurobiological models of the change mechanism in the
treatment of all patients, but especially in patients with a history of
early relational trauma. These chapters contain contributions on "modern
attachment theory" and its focus on the essential nonverbal, unconscious
affective mechanisms that lie beneath the words of the patient and
therapist; on clinical neuropsychoanalytic models of working with
relational trauma and pathological dissociation: and on the use of
affect regulation therapy (ART) in the emotionally stressful, heightened
affective moments of clinical enactments.
The chapters in the second part of the book on Developmental Affective
Neuroscience and Developmental Neuropsychiatry address the science that
underlies regulation theory's clinical models of development and
psychopathogenesis. Although most mental health practitioners are
actively involved in child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapeutic
treatment, a major theme of the latter chapters is that the field now
needs to more seriously attend to the problem of early intervention and
prevention.
Praise for Allan N. Schore:
Allan Schore reveals himself as a polymath, the depth and breadth of
whose reading-bringing together neurobiology, developmental
neurochemistry, behavioral neurology, evolutionary biology,
developmental psychoanalysis, and infant psychiatry-is staggering.
-British Journal of Psychiatry
Allan Schore's...work is leading to an integrated evidence-based dynamic
theory of human development that will engender a rapproachement between
psychiatry and neural sciences.-American Journal of Psychiatry
One cannot over-emphasize the significance of Schore's monumental
creative labor...Oliver Sacks' work has made a great deal of difference
to neurology, but Schore's is perhaps even more revolutionary and
pivotal...His labors are Darwinian in scope and import.-Contemporary
Psychoanalysis
Schore's model explicates in exemplary detail the precise mechanisms in
which the infant brain might internalize and structuralize the
affect-regulating functions of the mother, in circumscribed neural
tissues, at specifiable points in it epigenetic history. -Journal of
the American Psychoanalytic
Allan Schore has become a heroic figure among many psychotherapists for
his massive reviews of neuroscience that center on the patient-therapist
relationship. -Daniel Goleman, author of Social Intelligence
