Right Brain Psychotherapy

About Allan N. Schore

Allan N. Schore PhD 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. He is the recipient of the American Psychological Association Division 56: Trauma Psychology Award for Outstanding Contributions to Practice in Trauma Psychology and APA's Division 39: Psychoanalysis Scientific Award in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Research Theory and Practice of Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis.He is also an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is author of three seminal volumes Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self and Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self as well as numerous articles and chapters. His Regulation Theory grounded in developmental neuroscience and developmental psychoanalysis focuses on the origin psychopathogenesis and psychotherapeutic treatment of the early forming subjective implicit self. His contributions appear in multiple disciplines including developmental neuroscience psychiatry psychoanalysis developmental psychology attachment theory trauma studies behavioral biology clinical psychology and clinical social work. His groundbreaking integration of neuroscience with attachment theory has lead to his description as the American Bowlby and with psychoanalysis as the world's leading expert in neuropsychoanalysis. His books have been translated into several languages including Italian French German and Turkish.