Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self

Allan N. Schore

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Contents

Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self

Part I: Developmental Affective Neuroscience

1. The Experience-Dependent Maturation of a Regulatory System in the Orbitofrontal Cortex and the Origin of Developmental Psychopathology

2. The Experience-Dependent Maturation of an Evaluative System in the Cortex

3. Attachment and the Regulation of the Right Brain

4. Parent-Infant Communications and the Neurobiology of Emotional Development

Part II: Developmental Neuropsychiatry

5. Early Organization of the Nonlinear Right Brain and Development of a Predisposition to Psychiatric Disorders

6. The Effects of a Secure Attachment Relationship on Right-Brain Development, Affect Regulation, and Infant Mental Health

7. The Effects of Early Relational Trauma on Right-Brain Development, Affect Regulation, and Infant Mental Health

8. Dysregulation of the Right Brain: A Fundamental Mechanism of Traumatic Attachment and the Psychopathogenesis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorders

9. Effect of Early Relational Trauma on Affect Regulation: The Development of Borderline and Antisocial Personality Disorders and a Predisposition to Violence

About the Author

Allan N. Schore, Ph.D., is on the clinical faculty of the University of California at Los Angeles Medical School. He is the author of Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, now in its eighth printing, as well as numerous articles and chapters in various disciplines. He is the Editor of the Special Issue of the Infant Mental Health Journal, 'Contributions from the Decade of the Brain to Infant Mental Health,' is on the editorial board of the journal Neuropsychoanalysis, and has written the Foreword to the reissue of John Bowlby's volume Attachment.

ISBN: 0-393-70406-8
November, 2002
350 pages