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 three seminal volumes, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, and Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, as well as numerous articles and chapters. 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.”

 Dr. Schore's activities as a clinician-scientist span from his theoretical work on the enduring impact of early trauma on brain development, to neuroimaging research on the neurobiology of attachment and studies of borderline personality disorder, to his biological studies of relational trauma in wild elephants, and to his practice of psychotherapy over the last 4 decades, He leads Study Groups in Developmental Affective Neuroscience & Clinical Practice in Los Angeles, Berkeley, Portland, Seattle, and Boulder, lectures internationally, and is a member of the Commission on Children at Risk for the Report on Children and Civil Society, “Hardwired to Connect.”

“Allan Schore has become a heroic figure among many psychotherapists for his massive reviews of neuroscience that center on the patient-therapist relationship.” Daniel Goleman, author of Social Intelligence