Over the last three decades Dr. Schore’s interdisciplinary studies have been directed towards integrating psychological and biological models of emotional and social development across the lifespan. His contributions provide a substantial amount of research and clinical evidence which supports the proposition that the early developing, emotion-processing right brain represents the psychobiological substrate of the human unconscious described by Sigmund Freud. His work has been an important catalyst in the ongoing “emotional revolution” now occurring across all clinical and scientific disciplines. His neurobiologically-informed clinical model focuses specifically on how to work directly with emotions in all forms of psychotherapy.

Dr. Schore’s activities as a clinician-scientist span from his generating clinical models of working directly with emotions in psychotherapy, to interpersonal neurobiological models of the enduring impact of early attachment trauma on brain development, to theoretical developmental psychoanalytic conceptions of the early origins of the human unconscious mind, to neuroimaging research on the neurobiology of attachment and PTSD, to neurobiological studies of borderline personality disorder, to the enduring impact of toxic endocrine disruptors on the developing right brain, to neuropsychoanalytic studies of psychodynamic psychotherapy, to his biological studies of relational trauma in wild elephants, to the early right brain origins of love, and to his practice of psychotherapy over the last five decades. He has lead study groups in Right Brain Psychotherapy in Los Angeles, Seattle-Portland-Vancouver, Berkeley, Boulder, and Melbourne. He has lectured in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, and has given over 400 scientific presentations and more than 650 group clinical consultations.

Dr. Schore is past Editor of the acclaimed Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, and a reviewer or on the editorial staff of more than 50 journals across a number of scientific and clinical disciplines. He is a member of the Society of Neuroscience, and of the American Psychological Association’s Divisions of Neuropsychology, and of Psychoanalysis. He has received a number of honors for his work, including an Award for Outstanding Contributions to Practice in Trauma Psychology from the Division of Trauma Psychology and the Scientific Award from the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association, Honorary Membership by the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center Award for outstanding contributions to Child and Adolescent Mental Health.