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As I read Dr Allan Schore's most recent companion publication, I am propelled out of my complacency once more. I feel a sense of disruption. My psychological “terra firma” is disrupted.
Building on his three decades of original contributions, Dr Schore reaffirms that he:
… continues to assert that much of the mental health field's research overemphasizes measures of the left brain conscious self and underappreciates the power of unconscious implicit motivational and emotional systems in the human experience … There is now agreement that affect dysregulation is a fundamental mechanism of all psychiatric disorders, that right brain deficits in implicit and relational processes are the key to all personality disorders, and that all psychotherapies show a similarity in promoting affect regulation. (p. 28)
These are bold claims. The current evidence to support his claims are precisely the subject of his most recent books. The Development of the Unconscious Mind , dedicated “To all our children”, offering readers a chance to re-familiarise themselves with Allan's vast contributions over the last three decades.
Dr Schore provides ample evidence for the foundations for his paradigm changing principles embodied in his regulation theory. The focus of his second book (published simultaneously), Dr Schore applies regulation theory to day-to-day clinical practice in, Right Brain Psychotherapy (2019).
Collected over three decades, Eva Rass (2017) has edited key papers from Schore's extensive back catalogue of original contributions in The Allan Schore Reader. She offered a useful introduction to Allan's oeuvre, Sir Richard Bowlby's Preface, concluding with:
All human achievement is built on the shoulders of giants, and just as John Bowlby and Allan Schore have stood on “giant's shoulders”, so future generations of scientists will in turn be standing on their shoulders. In his books he has integrated a vast array of scientific advances and organised it in an overarching way that deserve