It is almost impossible to overstate Allan Schore’s influence on the fields of developmental neuroscience and neuropsychoanalysis — “the study of the early development of the unconscious mind,” as he describes it in the acknowledgments of the 2015 reissue of his classic text. Sometimes described as “the American John Bowlby,” his groundbreaking research and clinical work has had far-reaching effects on the study of play, brain science, and human lived experience. Dr. Schore’s synthesis of key work in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, biology, neuroscience, among others, helped explain how early life experiences, especially emotional experiences, shape the function and structure of brain and mind development. His work scaffolded the emerging field of infant mental health, and may help prevent mental illnesses later in life through interventions in early life. He has served on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine since 1996, and maintains a private clinical practice.
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Most Influential Work:
- Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self (Taylor & Francis, 2015; originally published in 1994), is the foundational text on “the neurobiology of emotional development” and the cornerstone of all his subsequent paradigm-shifting work.
- Allan Schore’s publications
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