Neurobiology and its Applications to Psychotherapy

The Early Bonds of Mutual Love: a neuroscientific exploration PART 3

In this session, Schore elaborates the role of the right amygdala, an essential structural system that is activated in all later adult forms of mutual love. The co-creation of mother-infant mutual love, a bond of “deep affection, strong emotional attachment” represents the expression of an instinctual evolutionary mechanism that is continually activated over the stages of human development. Offering a neurobiological update of Freud’s topographic theory he suggests that the right amygdala, the “deep unconscious,” is essential to all later forms of mutual love.