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In this new and highly original expansion of interpersonal neurobiology, affect regulation psychotherapy, and neuropsychoanalysis, Allan Schore presents powerful insights on obscure and as-yet undervalued mechanisms for using the unconscious mind and its creative and restorative processes in therapy. A pioneer in all of the above domains through his decades of hard interdisciplinary neuroscientific work, Schore is masterful in presenting a comprehensive, thoughtful, and particularly human approach for clinicians working with patients with severe, dissociative symptoms and less severe neurosis.
This excellent contribution was published by Norton in conjunction with another compelling volume, The Development of the Unconscious Mind (Schore, 2019b). These works in conjunction with Schore's decades of publications have expanded our understanding of the ways in which attuned and misattuned caregiver/child relationships and relational trauma can impact a person's future health, neurobiology, affect regulation, growth, and personality integration (see Schore, 1994, 2003a, 2003b). In his recent works, perhaps most notably The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy (2012), he has painstakingly elaborated the mechanisms of interactive, right brain-based affect regulation between patient and therapist. Now Schore adds another major thread to the intricate tapestry he has been weaving throughout his career, offering help to those clinicians who aim to understand how trauma impacts the brain and to offer healing and restoration to their patients.
In Right Brain Psychotherapy he brilliantly reconceptualizes the fundamental psychoanalytic concept of regression—traditionally viewed as problematic or even dangerous in psychotherapy—in neurobiological terms, showing how it can be an invaluable tool for both members of the therapeutic dyad, provided the therapist is sensitive and well-trained. Schore proposes that a sensitive and well-trained therapist can work in synchrony with a patient'