(13 reviews) Author: Allan N. Schore ISBN : 9780393706642 New from $30.66 Format: PDFThe latest work from a pioneer in the study of the development of the self.
Focusing on the hottest topics in psychotherapy—attachment, developmental neuroscience, trauma, the developing brain—this book provides a window into the ideas of one of the best-known writers on these topics. Following Allan Schore’s very successful books on affect regulation and dysregulation, also published by Norton, this is the third volume of the trilogy. It offers a representative collection of essential expansions and elaborations of regulation theory, all written since 2005.As in the first two volumes of this series, each chapter represents a further development of the theory at a particular point in time, presented in chronological order. Some of the earlier chapters have been re-edited: those more recent contain a good deal of new material that has not been previously published.
The first part of the book, Affect Regulation Therapy and Clinical Neuropsychoanalysis, contains chapters on the art of the craft, offering interpersonal neurobiological models of the change mechanism in the treatment of all patients, but especially in patients with a history of early relational trauma. These chapters contain contributions on “modern attachment theory” and its focus on the essential nonverbal, unconscious affective mechanisms that lie beneath the words of the patient and therapist; on clinical neuropsychoanalytic models of working with relational trauma and pathological dissociation: and on the use of affect regulation therapy (ART) in the emotionally stressful, heightened affective moments of clinical enactments.
The chapters in the second part of the book on Developmental Affective Neuroscience and Developmental Neuropsychiatry address the science that underlies regulation theory’s clinical models of development and psychopathogenesis. Although most mental health practitioners are actively involved in child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapeutic treatment, a major theme of the latter chapters is that the field now needs to more seriously attend to the problem of early intervention and prevention.
Praise for Allan N. Schore:
"Allan Schore reveals himself as a polymath, the depth and breadth of whose reading–bringing together neurobiology, developmental neurochemistry, behavioral neurology, evolutionary biology, developmental psychoanalysis, and infant psychiatry–is staggering." –British Journal of Psychiatry
"Allan Schore's...work is leading to an integrated evidence-based dynamic theory of human development that will engender a rapproachement between psychiatry and neural sciences."–American Journal of Psychiatry
"One cannot over-emphasize the significance of Schore's monumental creative labor...Oliver Sacks' work has made a great deal of difference to neurology, but Schore's is perhaps even more revolutionary and pivotal...His labors are Darwinian in scope and import."–Contemporary Psychoanalysis
"Schore's model explicates in exemplary detail the precise mechanisms in which the infant brain might internalize and structuralize the affect-regulating functions of the mother, in circumscribed neural tissues, at specifiable points in it epigenetic history." –Journal of the American Psychoanalytic
"Allan Schore has become a heroic figure among many psychotherapists for his massive reviews of neuroscience that center on the patient-therapist relationship." –Daniel Goleman, author of Social Intelligence
- Series: Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology
- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (April 2, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0393706648
- ISBN-13: 978-0393706642
- Product Dimensions: 1.3 x 6 x 9 inches
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The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy PDF
I am a medical doctor specialized in internal medicine and pain medicine. I bought this book to review the current knowledge of the functional neuroanatomy of attachment disorder, personality disorders, etc, and learn how this might have lately informed the practice of psychotherapy. I found this book to be extremely frustrating. I get the impression that rather than sit down and write a structured book on the subject at hand, Dr. Schore simply gathered a number of his related reviews and essays together under this title. Whatever the case, this lengthy book is a collection of chapters that cover variations of the same material repeatedly. And I mean repeatedly. I now know what that Edvard Munch guy on the bridge was screaming-- "You already said that!"
I will give a couple examples of this repetition. Schore says in the introductory chapter that there has been a paradigm shift from a left-brain cognitive-behavioral approach to a right-brained, pre-verbal approach. Great! Let's learn about it! Yet a search of the Kindle version shows that the word paradigm occurs 117 times in the text. It is already toward the end of the text that we read, "At the outset of this contribution I proposed that three trends of the ongoing paradigm shift in the developmental sciences--studies of right brain development, research on emotion, and models of self-regulation....." etc. The same stuff about this paradigm shift is repeated over and over ad nauseum.
Example two. Search on auditory-prosodic. 19 separate times spread throughout the chapters is repeated the same discussion on the role of "episodes of visualfacial, auditory-prosodic, and tactile-gestural affective communications" between infant and attuned caregiver in forming normal right-brain attachment psychology.
This is the single key text for any 21st century psychotherapist wanting to practice in a way that links modern neuroscience with the skills of the consulting room. If Freud was an extraordinary observer but seriously limited as a model builder, and Bowlby plus Ainsworth's development of attachment theory gave a way of getting back to good observation without constructing a carapace, Allan Schore has magisterially integrated his own extraordinary body of work of the last twenty years into an extended statement, continuously underpinned by science, of what it is that is the aim of psycotherapy and how it might be practised to achieve its aims. If, in the world of applied neuroscience, Jonah Lehrer has recently apparently made the error of fudging the facts to fit the story, Allan Schore is the exemplar of how the story can be derived from the facts. And then showing how powerful it is.
The title of the book says it all. 'The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy' could not itself be a more elegant descriptor of what the book is all about: and although those who bridle at the language of psychoanalysis might wish some of it discarded, the possibility of refining and re-addressing it at last appears. Schores' work - and Daniel Siegel's too, from the same editorial stable[...] - takes out the arcane and dusts it down in the light of a rapidly emerging science. It may even be that psychotherapists who do not understand what Schore is saying will not even be in practice in ten years' time: and psychotherapy training programmes that do not have it as their central text will do their trainees and potential patients no kindnesses at all.
The next stage of Schore's work must be to adapt it to different fields that demand a proper understanding of the human condition.
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