ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how a spectrum of psychological and biological disciplines has adopted his ideas as the dominant model of human development available to science. It suggests that in the three decades since the publication of Attachment, although the connections between attachment theory and science have deepened, those between itself and psychoanalysis and especially clinical psychoanalysis. The information about attachment and the emotion-processing right brain is describing the "non-specific factors" that are common to all forms of clinical treatment, factors particularly accessed in developmentally-oriented psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The objective left hemisphere can co-process subjective right brain communications, and this allows for a linkage of the nonverbal implicit and verbal explicit representational domains. In light of the central role of the limbic system in both attachment functions and in "the organization of new learning", the corrective emotional experience of psychotherapy, which can alter attachment patterns, must involve unconscious right-brain limbic learning.
