The Nature of Trauma and Dissociation

Working with the right brain: a model of clinical expertise for treatment of attachment trauma – Non-verbal communication and bodily-based attunement

Here Allan Schore suggests that the therapist’s capacity for creating a relationship with the patient is the principal agent for therapeutic change. This requires the ability to attune and thus decode the patient’s right-lateralised unconscious mind through a process of introjection – possibly the most difficult aspect of working with dissociative and traumatized patients. It is through such changes in consciousness and sharing of self-states in the therapy relationship that deep structural changes in the unconscious right brain can occur.