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In 1994 Allan Schore published his groundbreaking book, , in which he integrated a large number of experimental and clinical studies from both the psychological and biological disciplines in order to construct an overarching model of social and emotional development. Since then he has expanded his regulation theory in more than two dozen articles and essays covering multiple disciplines, including neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, attachment, and trauma. contains writings on developmental affective neuroscience and developmental neuropsychiatry. It is absolutely essential reading for all clinicians, researchers, and general readers interested in normal and abnormal human development.
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Schore's magnificent integration of research on attachment and developmental neuroscience demonstrates how we fundamentally thrive in pairs and groups. -- Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine
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A complete survey of modern psychology and neuroscience literatures...remarkable exercise in the scientific analysis of personality. (Donald Tucker, Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon)
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Ambitious and wide-ranging...will be of great interest not only to those working in neuroscience, but to clinicians and health care practitioners. (Ralph Adolphs, Ph.D., Department of Neurology, University of Iowa)
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A fascinating integration between the clinical and the neuroscientific and advances the necessary, promising and vital dialogue between the two. -- Daniel N. Stern, M.D., Professor of Psychology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland
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A welcome carpet for a new generation of neuropsychoanalytic research that supports and advances humane and sensitive psychotherapeutic practice. -- Jaak Panksepp, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, Bowling Green State University
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Schore offers a contemporary perspective on the solution of puzzles regarding mind and body, emotional health and dysfunction. (Joseph Lichtenberg, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Inquiry)
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A wonderful window for psychotherapists to look at neuroscience, go back to the consulting room more enlightened, confident and competent. -- Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., F.B.A., Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis at University College London
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"Oliver Sachs's work has made a great deal of difference to neurology, but Schore's is perhaps even more revolutionary." Judith Issroff
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This monumental work, divided into two separate volumes, offers a synthesis of affect and its dysregulation.Schore offers a contemporary perspective on the solution of puzzles regarding mind and body, emotional health and dysfunction. -- Joseph Lichtenberg, M.D., Editor-in-Chief,
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In 1994 Allan Schore published his groundbreaking book, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, in which he integrated a large number of experimental and clinical studies from both the psychological and biological disciplines in order to construct an overarching model of social and emotional development.
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Since then he has expanded his regulation theory in more than two dozen articles and essays covering multiple disciplines, including neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, attachment, and trauma.
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This volume (one of two) is the first presentation of Schore's comprehensive theory in book form, as it has developed since 1994.
About the Author
Allan N. Schore, Ph.D., is on the clinical faculty of the University of California at Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine. He is the author of Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, as well as numerous articles and chapters in various disciplines. He is the editor of the Special Issue of the Infant Mental Health Journal, 'Contributions from the Decade of the Brain to Infant Mental Health,' is on the editorial board of the journal Neuropsychoanalysis, and has written the foreword to the reissue of John Bowlby's volume Attachment. He has been in private psychotherapy practice for over three decades and resides in Northridge, CA.