Dr Allan Schore

Dr. Allan Schore is author of six seminal volumes as well as numerous articles and chapters. He is on the clinical faculty at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, past Editor of the acclaimed Norton Series of Interpersonal Neurobiology, and founder of the Right Brain Psychotherapy Institute. His contributions appear in multiple disciplines, including neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, attachment theory, trauma studies, behavioral biology, pediatrics, clinical psychology and social work. His groundbreaking integration of neuroscience with attachment theory has led to his description as “the American Bowlby,” with emotional development as “the world’s leading authority on how our right hemisphere regulates emotion and processes our sense of self,” and with psychoanalysis as “the world’s leading expert in neuropsychoanalysis.” He has lectured in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, and has given over 650 group clinical consultations, and more than 400 scientific presentations.

Honours and awards

Dr Allan Schore has been given the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Practice in Trauma Psychology in 2013 by the American Psychological Association Division 56 (Trauma Psychology).

Allan Schore is an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association for “… bringing the fields of neuroscience, psychoanalytic thought, developmental perspectives, self and other affective regulation, attachment studies and emotional function and dysfunction into a fertile mix for the advancement of our field.”