In recent decades it has become almost impossible to keep abreast of the burgeoning literature in a range of allied disciplines. Almost daily, it seems, new findings are reported regarding matters of such fundamental interest to psychoanalysis as the function of affect regulation. As a result, the majority of psychoanalysts are falling increasingly out of touch with current knowledge in the broader scientific field of which their discipline is a part.

This book, in which Allan Schore summarizes and integrates the recent literature of developmental neurobiology, infant and attachment research, and related disciplines relevant to the function of affect