The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy
Cambridge Forum for Children's Emotional Well-being
SPEAKER: Dr Allan Schore
DATE: Saturday 8th October 2011, 10.00am - 5.00pm
LOCATION: Faculty of Education, Donald MacIntyre Building map
COST: £99 Members £135 Non-members
Dr Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioural Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development.
Over the last two decades Dr Allan Schore has documented the remarkable advances that have been made in our understanding of early human development. Using an interpersonal neurobiological perspective, his Regulation Theory models the development, psychopathogenesis, and treatment of the implicit self.
In this workshop, offered as a PowerPoint presentation and an ongoing dialogue with the audience, he will initially discuss current models of the neurobiology of attachment, detailing the positive impact of early interactively regulated bodily-based affective communications on the organization of the infant’s developing right brain, which for the rest of the lifespan is dominant for social-emotional functions and stress regulation. Dr Schore will then describe the negative impact of relational trauma on the developmental trajectory of the right brain and model the intergenerational transmission of a predisposition to a spectrum of attachment trauma-related psychopathologies of selfregulation.
In the last part of the workshop he will apply Regulation Theory to the change process of psychotherapy. He will describe the critical role of the right brain in implicit facial, gestural, and prosodic communications within the therapeutic alliance, in dysregulated states of affective hyper- and hypoarousal that occur in enactments, and in empathy, transference-countertransference, and affect regulation. This work suggests that interactive regulation within the therapeutic alliance is a central mechanism in the treatment process of all patients, but especially in those with a history of early relational trauma.
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