Table Of ContentAFFECT REGULATION AND
THE ORIGIN OF THE SELF
The Neurobiology of
Emotional Development
For over three decades, Allan N. Schore has authored numerous volumes, chapters,
and articles on regulation theory, a biopsychosocial model of the development,
psychopathogenesis, and treatment of the implicit subjective self. The theory is
grounded in the integration of psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience, and it
is now being used by both clinicians to update psychotherapeutic models and by
researchers to generate research. First published in 1994, this pioneering volume
represented the inaugural expression of his interdisciplinary model, and has since
been hailed by a number of scientific and clinical disciplines as a groundbreaking
and paradigm-shifting work.
This volume appeared at a time when the problem of emotion, ignored for
most of the last century, was finally beginning to be addressed by science, includ-
ing the emergent field of affective neuroscience. After a century of the domi-
nance of the verbal left brain, it presented a detailed characterization of the early
developing right brain and its unique social, emotional, and survival functions, not
only in infancy but across all later stages of the human life span. It also offered
a scientifically testable and clinically relevant model of the development of the
human unconscious mind.
Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self acts as a keystone and foundation for
all of Schore’s later writings, as every subsequent book, article, and chapter that
followed represented expansions of this seminal work.
Allan N. Schore, Ph.D., is on the clinical faculty of the University of California at
Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine. He is author of numerous volumes,
articles, and chapters, reviewer or on the editorial staff of more than 45 journals in
various scientific and clinical fields, and has been in private psychotherapy practice
for over four decades.
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AFFECT REGULATION
AND THE ORIGIN
OF THE SELF
The Neurobiology of Emotional
Development
Classic Edition
Allan N. Schore
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY AND
BIOBEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Schore, Allan N., 1943– author.
Title: Affect regulation and the origin of the self : the neurobiology of
emotional development / Allan N. Schore.
Description: New York, NY : Psychology Press, 2016. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015037844 | ISBN 9781138917064 (hbk : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781138917071 (pbk : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315680019 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Emotions in infants—Physiological aspects. | Self in
infants—Physiological aspects. | Socialization—Physiological aspects. |
Developmental neurobiology. | Mother and infant.
Classification: LCC BF720.E45 S36 2016 | DDC 155.42/224—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015037844
ISBN: 978-1-138-91706-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-91707-1 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-68001-9 (ebk)
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To my mother and father, Barbara and George Schore
and to my wife Judith
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations xviii
Foreword James S. Grotstein xxii
Preface xxix
Acknowledgments xxxii
Introduction to the Classic Edition xxxiv
PART I
Background and Overview 1
1 Introduction 3
2 General Principles of Growth of the Developing Brain 9
Principle 1: The Growth of the Brain Occurs in Critical Periods
and is Influenced by the Social Environment 10
Principle 2: The Infant Brain Develops in Stages and Becomes
Hierarchically Organized 13
Principle 3: Genetic Systems that Program Brain Development
are Activated and Influenced by the Postnatal Environment 16
Principle 4: The Social Environment Changes Over the Stages
of Infancy and Induces the Reorganization of Brain Structures 18
3 Recent Advances in the Multidisciplinary Study
of Emotional Development 21
The Emergence of Socioemotional Functions in Sequential Stages 22
