by: Allan N. Schore
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 616.8917
EAN: 9780393704075
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0393704076
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 300
Publication Date: 2003-04
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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The latest work from a pioneer in the study of the development of the self.
In 1994 Allan Schore published his groundbreaking book, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, in which he integrated a large number of experimental and clinical studies from both the psychological and the biological disciplines in order to construct an overarching model of social and emotional development. Since then he has expanded his regulation theory in more than two dozen articles and essays covering multiple disciplines, including neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, attachment, and trauma.
This volume is the first presentation of his comprehensive theory in book form as it has developed since 1994. Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self contains chapters on neuropsychoanalysis and developmentally oriented psychotherapy. Absolutely essential reading for all clinicians, researchers, and general readers interested in normal and abnormal human development.
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- Brilliant, but sloppy ...Schore's integrative affect-regulation theory is based on the notion that the right-brain-to-right-brain synchronization of affect-based mother-infant communication ("attachment") is the foundation and model of all later affect regulation, both as the body-based origin of the self and for later psychotherapeutic and other repair of the self. This theory is brilliant and important, and Schore seems to have read every possible piece of research in every possible relevant field, especially psychoanalysis and neurophysiology, to support it and flesh it out as complexly as possible.
But he hasn't, of course. No one could. His theory is utterly congruent with the dialogism of Mikhail Bakhtin, who is never mentioned in the book; overlaps strikingly with the psychoanalytical theory of Jacques Lacan, who is never mentioned; and in particular is almost identical to the psychoanalytical theory of Julia Kristeva (who comes out of Bakhtin and Lacan): "The interactive 'transfer of affect' between the right brains of the members of the mother-infant and therapeutic dyads is thus best described as intersubjectivity" (48). This is Schore, but could be Kristeva--except that Kristeva would have written of semiotic intertextuality as well, and with far more style.
Schore draws heavily on Antonio Damasio's somatic-marker hypothesis and other neurological research into the social nature of affect regulation, with the result that regulation theory is thoroughly congruent with somatic theory; the major difference is that he focuses exclusively on social dyads (mother-infant, therapist-patient) and tends to neglect the importance of larger social groups for affect regulation. At the very least, one would have expected some discussion of the mother-father-infant triad, which was so important for Freud, and remained so important for his most radical followers, including Lacan and Kristeva, who associate what Schore calls affective right-brain body-based communication with the mother and verbal left-brain symbolic communication with the father. And certainly Freud was increasingly fascinated, toward the end of his life, especially in Civilization and its Discontents, with societal regulation of affect (the Unbehagen or dysregulation caused by misattuned societal regulation of Behagen or pleasure). There is not a trace of this large sociological interest in Schore. He would probably defend his exclusive focus on dyadic relationships on the basis that he is primarily ... Read More
