ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the nature of brain hemisphere asymmetry and the dynamic interaction of the fundamentally different attitudes of each hemisphere is the physical embodiment of creative process. It reviews Allan Schore's work on the role of the right hemisphere in the psychoanalytic process. He explained how neuropsychiatric research has proved that the right and left hemispheres of the brain have not just different functions, but entirely different attitudes and orientations toward reality. He elaborates on affective regulation therapy (ART), which as he describes it, relies to a large extent on facilitating and managing experiences of stressful affects activated by treatment relationship. Going beyond the reductionistic model of his focus on right-hemisphere dynamics in treatment, we have seen how both verbal and non-verbal can reverberate and mutually enhance each other. In addition understanding the dynamics of the asymmetrical brain also adds a dimension of non-relationality to contemporary discourse.
