Picture a mother gazing at her infant cradled in her arms, slightly rocking her, and softly talking to her in “motherese” while both of them appear removed from the world around them in a reverie. This quintessential early attachment experience is at the center of Allan Schore's thesis that the early phase of development of the unconscious mind occurs during infancy as the parenting environment is influencing the developing pattern of neuronal connectivity which underlies implicit nonverbal communication and spontaneous emotional behavior.