The Nature of Trauma and Dissociation

Working with the right brain: a model of clinical expertise for treatment of attachment trauma – Clinical intuition, rupture, misattunement and repair

In this presentation, Allan Schore proposes that empathy is essential for therapeutic change in the traumatized patient. He describes this is as a right-brain ability in which the therapist introjects the communications from the patient’s right lateralized unconscious mind. The inevitable process of misattunement and repair between therapist and patient reveal the relational unconscious, and offer the opportunity for traumatic memories to be integrated and emotions of a deeper intensity to become tolerated.