Dr. Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He is author of eight seminal volumes, including Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy, Right Brain Psychotherapy, and The Development of the Unconscious Mind as well as numerous articles and chapters. His Regulation Theory, grounded in developmental neuroscience and developmental psychoanalysis, focuses on the origin, psychopathogenesis, and psychotherapeutic treatment of the early forming subjective implicit self.
His contributions appear in multiple disciplines, including developmental neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, pediatrics, attachment theory, trauma studies, behavioral biology, clinical psychology, counseling, and clinical social work. His groundbreaking integration of neuroscience with attachment theory has led to his description as “the American Bowlby,” with emotional development as “the world’s leading authority on how our right hemisphere regulates emotion and processes our sense of self,” and with psychoanalysis as “the world’s leading expert in neuropsychoanalysis.” The American Psychoanalytic Association has described Dr. Schore as “a monumental figure in psychoanalytic and neuropsychoanalytic studies.” He has been inducted into Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society. For a detailed list of his books and articles, please visit the Publications page.
“All human achievement is built on the shoulders of giants, and just as John Bowlby and Allan Schore have stood on ‘giant’s shoulders’, so future generations of scientists will in turn be standing on their shoulders. In his books he has integrated a vast array of scientific advances and organized it in an overarching way that deserves the deepest acknowledgement and gratitude.” – Sir Richard Bowlby, 2017
New Presentation
Dr. Schore has been featured on Huberman Labs Podcast.
New Honors
Dr. Schore has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Sapienza University of Rome.
Dr. Schore has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center.
Dr. Schore has been nominated for and inducted into Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society. As the world’s largest honor society for eminent scientists and engineers, Sigma Xi recognizes researchers for the values held in high esteem: excellence, integrity, leadership, diversity, cooperation, and scholarship.
For other honors, visit the Awards page.
New Articles
In response to a Lifetime Achievement Award from Sapienza University of Rome, Dr. Schore has written an article appearing in Annals of General Psychiatry, 2022, “Right brain-to-right brain psychotherapy: recent scientific and clinical advances.”
Dr. Schore has written an article appearing in the 2021 issue of Frontiers in Psychology, “The Interpersonal Neurobiology of Intersubjectivity.”
New Chapters
Dr. Schore has written chapters in the following books:
“The Interpersonal Neurobiology of Therapeutic Mutual Regressions in Reenactment of Early Attachment Trauma,” in Interpersonal Neurobiology and Clinical Practice (Norton, 2021).
“The Right Brain is Dominant in Psychotherapy,” in The Divided Therapist. Hemispheric Difference and Contemporary Psychotherapy (Routledge, 2021).
“Neurobiologie et neuroendocrinologie développmentales des garçons à risques,” in Le grand livre des 1000 premiers jours de vie (Dunod, 2021).
“The Fundamental Role of the Mother in the Interpersonal Neurobiological Origins of Mutual Love,” in The Handbook of Therapeutic Care for Children (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2020).
Latest Books
Dr. Schore has co-authored Interpersonal Neurobiology and Clinical Practice, editors Daniel J. Siegal, Allan N. Schore, and Louis Cozolino. The editors have enlisted some of the most widely read IPNB authors to reflect on the impact of IPNB on their clinical practice and offer words of wisdom to the hundreds of thousands of IPNB-informed clinicians around the world.
Dr. Schore’s books have been translated into many languages, including French (français), Italian (italiano), Spanish (español), German (deutsche), Romanian (română), Turkish (türkçeye), and Japanese (日本語).
Dr. Schore’s recent book, Right Brain Psychotherapy is now available.
“In this meticulously researched and lovingly crafted masterpiece, the trailblazing, internationally renowned neuroscientist-clinician Allan Schore, Ph.D., evolves his interpersonal neurobiological paradigm of Right Brain Psychotherapy to the next level of nuanced refinement…. You would not be in your ‘right mind’ were you to pass up this opportunity to evolve to your own next level by immersing yourself in the magic of Schore’s seamless integration of left-brain neuroscientific theory and right-brain clinical practice.”
— Martha Stark, MD, Faculty, Harvard Medical School
“Being interdisciplinary in the best sense of the word, it is quite remarkable how Allan N. Schore connects psychotherapy research with neuroscientific laterality research, two fields that rarely interact and have very different scientific traditions…. Right Brain Psychotherapy is an important and timely addition to the laterality literature…. I hope that it inspires more researchers to investigate possible applications of laterality research in psychotherapy, as this highly relevant field certainly deserves much more exploration.”
— Sebastian Ocklenburg, Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain, Cognition, 2019
Dr. Schore’s recent book, The Development of the Unconscious Mind is now available.
“Prepare the left side of your brain to be gobsmacked by Schore’s argument for the centrality of the right side of your brain in the development not only of the self, but in loving relationships as well, and the psychopathology of both. Schore is exceptional among most contemporary theorists in simultaneously speaking to the structural organization of the brain and how it functions over the course of early and lifelong development. Through it all Schore never loses sight of the actual messy moment-by-moment reparatory process of social interactions that sculpts individuals’ becoming who they are.”
— Ed Tronick, University Distinguished Professor, University of Massachusetts
“Over the last three decades, Dr. Allan Schore’s vast body of ‘disruptive’ research publications has significantly contributed to the current paradigm change in the world of mental health…I recommend to all mental health professionals the challenge to immerse themselves in these two books, a contribution and gift from a pioneer clinician-scientist…Dr. Schore’s work…has pushed beyond the limits, unconstrained by conventional expectations, to redefine basic assumptions in mental health and dared to engage with the ever-changing world of neuroscience informing psychotherapy, in both directions.”
— George Halasz, Australasian Psychiatry, 2019