ABSTRACT
For over three decades, Allan N. Schore has authored numerous volumes, chapters, and articles on regulation theory, a biopsychosocial model of the development, psychopathogenesis, and treatment of the implicit subjective self. The theory is grounded in the integration of psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience, and it is now being used by both clinicians to update psychotherapeutic models and by researchers to generate research. First published in 1994, this pioneering volume represented the inaugural expression of his interdisciplinary model, and has since been hailed by a number of scientific and clinical disciplines as a groundbreaking and paradigm-shifting work.
This volume appeared at a time when the problem of emotion, ignored for most of the last century, was finally beginning to be addressed by science, including the emergent field of affective neuroscience. After a century of the dominance of the verbal left brain, it presented a detailed characterization of the early developing right brain and it unique social, emotional, and survival functions, not only in infancy but across all later stages of the human life span. It also offered a scientifically testable and clinical relevant model of the development of the human unconscious mind.
Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self acts as a keystone and foundation for all of Schore’s later writings, as every subsequent book, article, and chapter that followed represented expansions of this seminal work.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |67 pages
Background and Overview
chapter |6 pages
Introduction
chapter |12 pages
General Principles of Growth of the Developing Brain
chapter |28 pages
Structure-Function Relationships of the Orbitofrontal Cortex
chapter |6 pages
Overview
part |128 pages
Early Infancy
chapter |21 pages
Visual Experiences and Socioemotional Development
chapter |7 pages
The Practicing Period
chapter |15 pages
The Psychobiology of Affective Reunions
chapter |21 pages
Early Imprinting
chapter |11 pages
Imprinting Neuroendocrinology
chapter |22 pages
Socioaffective Influences on Orbitofrontal Morphological Development
chapter |8 pages
The Emotionally Expressive Face
chapter |11 pages
The Neurochemical Circuitry of Imprinted Interactive Representations
chapter |10 pages
The Regulatory Function of Early Internal Working Models
part |86 pages
Late Infancy
chapter |14 pages
The Onset of Socialization Procedures and the Emergence of Shame
chapter |18 pages
Late Orbitofrontal Development
chapter |9 pages
Orbitofrontal versus Dorsolateral Prefrontal Ontogeny
chapter |9 pages
The Dyadic Origin of Internal Shame Regulation
chapter |11 pages
Socialization and Experience-Dependent Parcellation
chapter |9 pages
The Origins of Infantile Sexuality and Psychological Gender
part |87 pages
Applications to Affect Regulatory Phenomena
chapter |9 pages
Cross-Modal Transfer and Abstract Representations
chapter |17 pages
Orbitofrontal Influences on the Autonomic Nervous System
chapter |11 pages
The Regulation of Infantile Rage Reactions
chapter |7 pages
Affect Regulation and Early Moral Development
chapter |15 pages
The Emergence of Self-Regulation
part |103 pages
Clinical Issues
chapter |13 pages
The Neurobiology of Insecure Attachments
chapter |29 pages
The Clinical Psychiatry of Affect Dysregulation
chapter |16 pages
The Developmental Psychopathology of Personality Disorders
chapter |12 pages
Vulnerability to Psychosomatic Disease
chapter |31 pages
Psychotherapy of Developmental Disorders
part |68 pages
Integrations