Dr Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine. He is author of the seminal volume Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self and two recent books, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self and Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self. His groundbreaking contributions have impacted the fields of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, affective neuroscience, neuropsychiatry, developmental psychopathology, trauma theory, and infant mental health. He is on the editorial staff and reviewer of 22 journals, is involved in psychiatric neuroimaging research, lectures internationally to a variety of clinical and scientific audiences, and has practiced psychotherapy for four decades.