'Forging Connections in Group Psychotherapy Through Right Brain-to-Right Emotional Communications'

In this lecture, Dr. Schore will draw on his last book, The Science and the Art of Psychotherapy, and on one of his next two volumes, Right Brain Psychotherapy, to apply Regulation Theory to the change processes of group psychotherapy. He will discuss how right brain communications of conscious and especially unconscious affects occur beneath the words of the group member’s narratives, and how this system of nonverbal communication is implicitly embedded in group processes.

Dr. Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He is author of four seminal volumes, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, and The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy, as well as two new books, Right Brain Psychotherapy and The Development of the Unconscious Mind. His Regulation Theory, grounded in developmental neuroscience and developmental psychoanalysis, focuses on the origin, psychopathogenesis, and psychotherapeutic treatment of the early forming subjective self. He has received numerous honors, including an Award for Outstanding Contributions to Practice in Trauma Psychology from the Division of Trauma Psychology and the Scientific Award from the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Schore has practiced psychotherapy for over five decades.

AGPA Connect 2019 Conference Opening Plenary Address