The Nature of Trauma and Dissociation

Working with the right brain: a model of clinical expertise for treatment of attachment trauma

Here Dr Allan Schore proposes that psychotherapy is a question of restructuring the unconscious itself. He proposes that working with dissociated affects requires a deep level of empathy that helps the patient to re-visit their past trauma in tolerable doses. The work involves right-brain to right-brain interactions that allow unconscious self-images to be expressed in the form of enactments and thus be integrated through a safe relational environment.