About the Author

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.

Reviews

"This monumental work, divided into two separate volumes, offers a synthesis of affect and its dysregulation."
*Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics*

"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*

"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*

"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*

"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, Psychoanalytic Inquiry*