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I disturbi del sé - La disregolazione degli affetti
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 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. Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self contains writings on developmental affective neuroscience and developmental neuropsychiatry. It is absolutely essential reading for all clinicians, researchers, and general readers interested in normal and abnormal human development.
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377 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2003
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Allan N. Schore
34 books84 followersAllan N. Schore (/ʃɔr/; born February 20, 1943) is a leading researcher in the field of neuropsychology, whose contributions have influenced the fields of affective neuroscience, neuropsychiatry, trauma theory, developmental psychology, attachment theory, pediatrics, infant mental health, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and behavioral biology.
Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development. He is author of the seminal volume Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, now in its 11th printing, and two recent books Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self and Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, as well as numerous articles and chapters. Schore is Editor of the acclaimed Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, and a reviewer or on the editorial staff of 27 journals.
Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development. He is author of the seminal volume Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, now in its 11th printing, and two recent books Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self and Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, as well as numerous articles and chapters. Schore is Editor of the acclaimed Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, and a reviewer or on the editorial staff of 27 journals.
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November 23, 2022
Allan Schore’s basic assertion is that attachment relationships (particularly between mothers and infants) can only be properly understood in terms of their emotion regulation functions. The quality of mother/infant attachment effects the developing individuals ability to regulate emotions later in life. And the quality of their emotional regulation greatly effects their ability to love and work (and so much more) throughout the lifespan.
In other words.
Babies needs are expressed as emotions.
Primary attachment figures (mostly moms, particularly for the first 2 years) who accurately attune to, and reflect babies emotions, and respond to babies needs appropriately and with “good enough” caregiving foster feelings of love, connection and safety in baby.
These formative attachment experiences shape babies developing brain and set the stage for their fundamental sense of self, their emotional experiences of the world, and their emotional regulation and emotional need meeting strategies in their relationships others, as toddlers, adolescents and into adulthood.
According to Schore, secure attachment (relationally based emotional connection and caregiving) experiences influence the developmental trajectory of the babies emotional brain and extended nervous system, including: the limbic system (the part of the brain that processes and evaluates environmental stimuli for emotional value - e.g. scanning the room for threats to safety and opportunities to eat, bone etc.), and the autonomic nervous system (the part of the brain and preifereal nervous system that generates the somatic aspects of emotion and mobilizes bodily and behavioral responses to environmental threats and opportunities e.g., fight, flight, freeze or fornicate, tend and befriend, rest and digest etc.).
As previously mentioned, predominantly secure attachment experiences elicit general feelings of safety, comfort and connection in baby, and configure the babies developing emotional brain to survive and reproduce in a generally safe, affirmative environment.
Predominately insecure (organized and disorganized) attachment experiences elicit feelings of lack of safety, discomfort and lack of connection in baby, and configure the babies developing emotional brain to survive and reproduce in a generally unsafe, competitive and dangerous environment.
Schore argues that most of what we call psychopathology, and just about all of what we treat in psychotherapy, involves attachment based difficulties in emotional regulation.
Schore posits that the right hemisphere of the brain is predominantly responsible for implicit, emotional, affiliative, relational, holistic, feeling connection (and not as much involved in later maturing symbolic language and explicit, declarative cognitive functions).
Schore asserts that mother/infant attachment communication is all about right brain to right brain connection. Schore argues that good therapy necessitates an analogous, safe, secure right brain to right brain connection between therapist and client.
As such, Shore advocates for an attachment oriented, emotionally mindful, bio-psychologically (somatically) grounded, relationally attuned parenting and psychotherapy.
And yes!
Why 4/5 (not 5/5) stars ?
This book is old, and dated in terms of the science. And it’s written in a very technical style. Which makes it less immediately applicable in terms of practice.
Schore’s more recent books are more up to date, and WAY more relatable and clinically useful.
So start with Right Brain Psychotherapy (Schore 2019a) and The Development of the Unconscious Mind (Schore 2019b), and work backwards from there.
By the time you reach this book and it’s companion volume Affect Regulation, most of the material will have been covered already, and it will make these texts less aversive, more accessible, and (frankly) optional.
In other words.
Babies needs are expressed as emotions.
Primary attachment figures (mostly moms, particularly for the first 2 years) who accurately attune to, and reflect babies emotions, and respond to babies needs appropriately and with “good enough” caregiving foster feelings of love, connection and safety in baby.
These formative attachment experiences shape babies developing brain and set the stage for their fundamental sense of self, their emotional experiences of the world, and their emotional regulation and emotional need meeting strategies in their relationships others, as toddlers, adolescents and into adulthood.
According to Schore, secure attachment (relationally based emotional connection and caregiving) experiences influence the developmental trajectory of the babies emotional brain and extended nervous system, including: the limbic system (the part of the brain that processes and evaluates environmental stimuli for emotional value - e.g. scanning the room for threats to safety and opportunities to eat, bone etc.), and the autonomic nervous system (the part of the brain and preifereal nervous system that generates the somatic aspects of emotion and mobilizes bodily and behavioral responses to environmental threats and opportunities e.g., fight, flight, freeze or fornicate, tend and befriend, rest and digest etc.).
As previously mentioned, predominantly secure attachment experiences elicit general feelings of safety, comfort and connection in baby, and configure the babies developing emotional brain to survive and reproduce in a generally safe, affirmative environment.
Predominately insecure (organized and disorganized) attachment experiences elicit feelings of lack of safety, discomfort and lack of connection in baby, and configure the babies developing emotional brain to survive and reproduce in a generally unsafe, competitive and dangerous environment.
Schore argues that most of what we call psychopathology, and just about all of what we treat in psychotherapy, involves attachment based difficulties in emotional regulation.
Schore posits that the right hemisphere of the brain is predominantly responsible for implicit, emotional, affiliative, relational, holistic, feeling connection (and not as much involved in later maturing symbolic language and explicit, declarative cognitive functions).
Schore asserts that mother/infant attachment communication is all about right brain to right brain connection. Schore argues that good therapy necessitates an analogous, safe, secure right brain to right brain connection between therapist and client.
As such, Shore advocates for an attachment oriented, emotionally mindful, bio-psychologically (somatically) grounded, relationally attuned parenting and psychotherapy.
And yes!
Why 4/5 (not 5/5) stars ?
This book is old, and dated in terms of the science. And it’s written in a very technical style. Which makes it less immediately applicable in terms of practice.
Schore’s more recent books are more up to date, and WAY more relatable and clinically useful.
So start with Right Brain Psychotherapy (Schore 2019a) and The Development of the Unconscious Mind (Schore 2019b), and work backwards from there.
By the time you reach this book and it’s companion volume Affect Regulation, most of the material will have been covered already, and it will make these texts less aversive, more accessible, and (frankly) optional.
August 7, 2016
Contenu passionnant notamment en ce qui a trait à la honte et à l'identification projective.
Tellement ardu à lire.
Tellement ardu à lire.
April 26, 2009
interesting research findings........... our connections, brain and otherwise, are very important.
April 25, 2014
Incredibly detailed and challenging, but not nearly as relevant to my practice as I had thought.
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