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The Right Brain and the Origin of Human Nature: Working With Conscious and Unconscious Emotion in Psychotherapy

Allan Schore, Ph.D.
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  • 1560 Sherman Ave
    Evanston, Illinois 60201

Description

The capstone of three decades of work, Affect Regulation and the Origin of Human Nature details how the early developing right brain – the psychobiological locus of Freud’s unconscious mind - plays a central role in the origin of human nature, defined as the general characteristics and feelings attributed to human beings. Over the lifespan, at implicit levels beneath awareness, the early evolving right brain unconsciously generates the emotional capacity for both love and hate, ecstasy and agony, good and evil, forgiveness and revenge, creativity and destructiveness – all products of the deeper stratum of human nature.

This education offers recent brain laterality research indicating that rapid right brain emotional and relational implicit processes operate at unconscious levels not only in early attachment development but in psychotherapy. Dr. Schore presents a neurobiologically informed clinical model for working with unconscious and conscious emotion in right brain psychotherapy, in which synchronized interactively regulated nonverbal emotional dynamics act as therapeutic change mechanisms that focus not on conscious verbal insight but on the formation of an unconscious right brain-to-right brain communicating bond implicitly embedded within the burgeoning therapeutic relationship.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Recognize the importance of the unconscious right brain subjective self in intersubjectivity and attachment, not only in early development but across the lifespan, based on a large body of recent neuroscience and clinical advances.

  • Explain how the right temporpariental cortex in the posterior areas of the right brain is involved in the communication of emotion, while the right orbitofrontal cortex in the anterior area of the right brain is involved in the regulation of emotion.

  • Explain how hyperscanning technology that studies two brains in real time interaction with each other allows for a deeper understanding of the interpersonal neurobiology of the co-constructed therapeutic alliance.

  • Summarize how the empathic therapist shifts from the left to right hemisphere to follow changes in the patient’s affects in order to interpersonally synchronize with and subliminally regulate the patient’s unconscious affective states, thereby facilitating therapeutic change.

Educational Goal

The Education Goal is to review how both a large body of recent neuroscience and clinical advances now highlights the importance of the unconscious right brain subjective self in intersubjectivity and attachment, not only in early development but across the lifespan.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Psychiatrist
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Allan Schore, Ph.D.
For 30 years I have been on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. In addition to numerous chapters and articles, I’ve authored nine seminal books that have been translated into 8 languages, as well as been past Editor of the prestigious Norton Series of Interpersonal Neurobiology, and a reviewer or on the editorial staff of over 50 journals. I’ve received numerous awards and honors for this work (see allanschore.com). In addition, I’ve lectured internationally for three decades, and have been in private psychotherapy practice for over 55 years.

Financially Sponsored By

  • Yellowbrick