Confer Speakers

Dr Allan Schore

Dr Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development. 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 numerous articles and chapters. His Regulation Theory, grounded in developmental neuroscience and developmental psychoanalysis, focuses on the origin, psychopathogenesis, and psychotherapeutic treatment of the early forming subjective implicit self. His contributions appear in multiple disciplines, including developmental neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, attachment theory, trauma studies, behavioral biology, clinical psychology, and clinical social work. His groundbreaking integration of neuroscience with attachment theory has lead to his description as "the American Bowlby" and with psychoanalysis as "the world's leading expert in neuropsychoanalysis." 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.”

Past and present Confer events
Advances in Relational Psychotherapy
Online module

The Nature of Trauma and Dissociation
Online module

Neurobiology and its Applications to Psychotherapy
Online module

The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy
Friday 12 and Saturday 13 October 2012

Why Psychotherapy Works - Dublin
Friday 7 October 2011