“All human achievement is built on the shoulders of giants, and just as John Bowlby and Allan Schore have stood on ‘giant’s shoulders’, so future generations of scientists will in turn be standing on their shoulders. In his books he has integrated a vast array of scientific advances and organized it in an overarching way that deserves the deepest acknowledgement and gratitude.”
Sir Richard Bowlby,
2017
Dr. Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He is author of six seminal volumes, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy, Right Brain Psychotherapy, and The Development of the Unconscious Mind 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, pediatrics, clinical psychology, and clinical social work. His groundbreaking integration of neuroscience with attachment theory has led to his description as “the American Bowlby,” with emotional development as “the world’s leading authority on how our right hemisphere regulates emotion and processes our sense of self,” and with psychoanalysis as “the world’s leading expert in neuropsychoanalysis.” The American Psychoanalytic Association has described Dr. Schore as “a monumental figure in psychoanalytic and neuropsychoanalytic studies.”
Over the last three decades Dr. Schore’s interdisciplinary studies have been directed towards integrating psychological and biological models of emotional and social development across the lifespan. His contributions provide a substantial amount of research and clinical evidence which supports the proposition that the early developing, emotion-processing right brain represents the psychobiological substrate of the human unconscious described by Freud. Since 1996 he has lead study groups on right brain psychotherapy and modern attachment theory to clinicians in Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Berkeley, Boulder, and Melbourne Australia. He has lectured in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia; and has given over 650 group clinical consultations, more than 400 scientific presentations, and over 28,000 citations on his work (Google Scholar).
Dr. Schore is past Editor of the acclaimed Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology and a reviewer or on the editorial staff of more than 45 journals across a number of scientific and clinical disciplines. He is a member of the Society of Neuroscience, and of the American Psychological Association’s Divisions of Neuropsychology, and of Psychoanalysis. He has received numerous honors for his work, including an Award for Outstanding Contributions to Practice in Trauma Psychology from the Division of Trauma Psychology and the Scientific Award from the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association, Honorary Membership by the American Psychoanalytic Association, and received the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center Award for Outstanding Contributions to Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
