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Dr. Allan Schore |
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Brain Attachment and Affect Regulation: Dr. Allan Schore will discuss current advances in the neurobiology of attachment, detailing the enduring positive and negative impact of interactively regulated and dysregulated bodily-based affective transactions on the organization of the infant’s early developing right brain, which for the rest of the life span is dominant for the nonconscious processing of emotions, stress regulation, and intersubjectivity. Applying the developmental model to the change process of psychotherapy, he will then describe the critical role of the right brain in implicit facial, gestural, and prosodic communications within the intersubjective field, and in empathy, transference- countert r a n s f e rence, mentalization, and affect regulation. This work suggests that more so than insight, interactive regulation within the therapeutic alliance is a central mechanism in the treatment of early forming personality disorders, and that both optimal development and effective psychotherapy promote an expansion of the biological substrate of the human unconscious, the right brain/mind/body system, the dynamic core of the implicit self. (*CD of workshop available for purchase, see page 16 for details.) Dr. Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development. His ground-breaking contributions have impacted the fields of affective neuroscience, neuropsychiatry, trauma theory, developmental psychology, attachment theory, pediatrics, infant mental health, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and behavioral biology. Dr. Schore’ s activities as a clinician-scientist span from his practice of psychotherapy over the last 4 decades, to his current involvement in neuroimaging research on the neurobiology of attachment and studies of borderline personality disorder, to his biological work on relational trauma in wild elephants. |
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