Clinical Legacy Series
Allan Schore: The Right Brain, Affect Regulation and the Emotional Self
Allan Schore’s two-hour Legacy Interview, with special guests Clara Mucci and Daniel Hill, and his four-hour Clinical Masterclass—both available on demand.
Legacy Interview recorded 3 September 2026
Clinical Masterclass recorded 17 September 2026 | Both recordings available now
About this Series
This two-part MINDinMIND Clinical Series brings together Allan Schore’s two-hour Legacy Interview and four-hour Clinical Masterclass, offering a wide-ranging exploration of one of contemporary psychotherapy’s most influential thinkers.
Allan Schore is a clinical psychologist and clinician-scientist whose integration of psychoanalysis, attachment theory, neuroscience and trauma research has transformed how therapists understand affect regulation, the unconscious and the developing right brain.
In the Legacy Interview, Allan joined Jane O’Rourke to reflect on the personal and clinical experiences that shaped his work, how his ideas developed, and what he most wants therapists to understand about affect, the body, the unconscious and right-brain communication in the consulting room.
Special guests Clara Mucci and Daniel Hill brought complementary clinical perspectives. Clara explored the implications for trauma, dissociation and borderline states, while Daniel considered how affect regulation theory can be used in everyday practice.
In the four-hour Clinical Masterclass, Allan moved from theory into clinical application. Drawing on more than three decades of work, he examined what affect regulation, right-brain communication and embodied experience mean moment by moment in therapy.
The Masterclass focused on how clinicians recognise shifts in affect and bodily state, how implicit and nonverbal communication enters the therapeutic relationship, how dysregulation is met and repaired, and how the therapist’s own emotional and bodily responses can become clinically useful information.
At the centre of Allan’s work is the idea that much of emotional life is organised before words. He has shown how relational trauma can disrupt these early processes, and how psychotherapy can engage with the implicit, bodily and nonverbal communication unfolding between therapist and patient.
Together, the Interview and Masterclass trace the arc of Allan’s contribution and bring his ideas directly into contemporary clinical practice.
Both recordings are available now. Purchase the complete six-hour Series at a reduced price, or choose either recording separately.
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Legacy Interview recording
Recorded 3 September 2026
- 2-hour on-demand interview recording
- Unlimited replay access
- 2-hour CPD/CE certificate
£39.00
Purchase RecordingThe Allan Schore Legacy Series
Six hours of on-demand recordings
- Two-hour Legacy Interview, recorded 3 September 2026
- Four-hour Clinical Masterclass, recorded 17 September 2026
- Immediate access to both recordings
- 6-hour CPD/CE certificate
- Selected readings and resources drawn from Allan Schore’s work
- Join a global community of clinicians engaging with Allan Schore’s work
£99.00
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Recorded 17 September 2026
- Four-hour on-demand Clinical Masterclass
- Unlimited replay access
- 4-hour CPD/CE certificate
- Selected readings and resources drawn from Allan Schore’s work
£78.00
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Allan Schore Legacy Interview
Recorded 3 September 2026 | Available now
The Right Brain, Affect Regulation and the Emotional Self
In the two-hour Legacy Interview, Allan looked back across his life’s work. In conversation with Jane O’Rourke, he reflected on the personal and clinical experiences that shaped him, how his ideas developed, and what he most wants therapists to understand about affect, the body, the unconscious, implicit affect regulation and the right brain in the consulting room.
Special guests Clara Mucci and Daniel Hill connected Allan’s ideas to the realities of clinical work. Clara explored their implications for trauma, dissociation and borderline states; Daniel considered how affect regulation theory can become a practical model for therapists across modalities.
The conversation explores:
- How Allan developed regulation theory by bringing neuroscience, attachment research, developmental studies and psychoanalysis into conversation
- The three revolutions he identifies in the field: from the behavioural model, through the cognitive model, to the centrality of emotion
- Why the early right brain, shaped through our first relationships, became central to his account of emotional development
- Why implicit, rather than explicit or conscious, affect regulation became the centre of his work
- What right-brain-to-right-brain communication means in practice—and why so much of therapy happens below the level of words
- How his emphasis on implicit affective communication differs from more cognitive, representational or mentalisation-based accounts of therapeutic change
- Why he understands the unconscious as embodied, affective and grounded in right-brain processes
- How Clara Mucci applies affect regulation theory to trauma, dissociation and borderline states
- How Daniel Hill translates affect regulation theory into a clinical model that therapists across modalities can use
£39.00
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Allan Schore Clinical Masterclass
Recorded 17 September 2026 | Available now
Affect Regulation in the Consulting Room
About This Masterclass
In this four-hour Masterclass, Allan moved from theory into clinical application, exploring how affect regulation, right-brain communication and embodied experience shape therapy moment by moment.
The Masterclass comprised two teaching modules:
- The Right Brain and The Origin of Human Nature: Working With Unconscious and Conscious Emotion in Psychotherapy
- Right Brain Psychotherapy: Working With Attachment Trauma
Allan examined the implicit, nonverbal level of the therapeutic relationship: how clinicians read and respond to shifts in affect and bodily state, how dysregulation is met and repaired, and how the therapist’s own right brain and nervous system become part of the clinical dialogue.
Drawing parallels between early caregiver–infant regulation and the therapeutic relationship, Allan showed how change emerges through the affective, relational encounter—not through insight, interpretation or conscious reflection alone. He illustrated these ideas through close analysis of clinical case material.
Key clinical questions included:
- How can clinicians recognise implicit, nonverbal communication in the therapeutic relationship?
- How do tone, timing, bodily state, gaze and shifts in affect carry clinically important information?
- How does the early caregiver–infant relationship provide a model for the regulating work of therapy?
- How can therapists help regulate and repair dysregulation in the room?
- How can therapists use their own bodily and emotional responses as information about a patient’s non-conscious states?
- How does right-brain-to-right-brain communication shape the therapeutic relationship?
- Why might heightened affective moments—not moments of insight—be central to therapeutic change?
The session explored:
- Implicit affect regulation in clinical practice
- Right-brain-to-right-brain communication, and why the relationship itself carries the change
- The caregiver–infant dyad as a model for the two-person work of therapy
- The therapist’s bodily and interoceptive responses as clinical information—a neurobiological view of countertransference
- Relational trauma, dissociation and early-forming disturbances of the self
- Applying these ideas to borderline personality disorder: reenactments of attachment trauma, interactive repair, and the movement from rupture back to connection
- The unconscious as embodied, affective and grounded in right-brain processes
- Working directly with emotion across different forms of psychotherapy
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Purchase RecordingAbout Allan Schore
Allan Schore, PhD, is a clinician-scientist and clinical psychologist on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He is past Editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, has lectured internationally and has received major honours from the American Psychological Association’s Divisions of Trauma Psychology and Psychoanalysis, as well as honorary membership of the American Psychoanalytic Association, which has described him as a monumental figure in psychoanalytic and neuropsychoanalytic studies.
In 2017 Sir Richard Bowlby, son of John Bowlby, placed Allan alongside his father as a figure on whose work future generations of scientists would build.
His foundational book, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development, was published in 1994 and became the foundation for much of his later work. His later books include Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy, The Development of the Unconscious Mind, Right Brain Psychotherapy and The Right Brain and the Origin of Human Nature.
Legacy Interview Special Guests
Clara Mucci
Clara Mucci, PhD, is a psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and Professor of Dynamic Psychology at the University of Bergamo, Italy, where she directs the School of Specialization and Psychotherapy in Health Psychology.
Her work brings together psychoanalysis, attachment, trauma theory, affect regulation and the body, with a particular focus on trauma, dissociation and personality disorder. She has worked closely with Allan Schore for twenty years, having earlier studied with Otto Kernberg and Peter Fonagy, and has drawn directly on Allan's affect regulation theory in her clinical writing. Her book Borderline Bodies: Affect Regulation Therapy for Personality Disorders, published in the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology with a foreword by Allan, places the body, affect and early relational trauma at the centre of treatment.
In the recorded conversation, Clara brought the view from work with some of the most difficult clinical presentations, showing what changes when affect regulation, the body and early relational trauma are placed at the centre of treatment.
Daniel Hill
Daniel Hill, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and educator in private practice in New York City. He is the author of Affect Regulation Theory: A Clinical Model (2015), published in the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology with a foreword by Allan Schore, and Affect, Consciousness and Self: The View from the Bottom of the Mind (2025).
He is on the faculties of the National Institute of the Psychotherapies and the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. For more than two decades, Dan has taught, written and led study groups on affect regulation.
His work helps clinicians use Allan’s regulation theory in practice, particularly in relation to attachment, shame, bodily states, implicit process, dissociation and right-brain communication. In the recorded conversation, Dan helped connect Allan’s theory to the clinical realities of the consulting room: how therapists read implicit affective communication, how they use their own bodily and emotional responses, and how regulation is built between patient and therapist.
Who this series is for
- Psychotherapists and psychoanalysts of all orientations interested in affect, attachment and the therapeutic relationship
- Clinicians working with relational trauma, dissociation and complex presentations
- Therapists working with personality disorder and borderline states
- Parent-infant and infant mental health clinicians
- Attachment-focused therapists, supervisors and trainers
- Clinical psychologists, counsellors and psychotherapists interested in the neurobiology of emotion
- Practitioners drawn to the implicit, nonverbal and body-based dimensions of therapy
- Trainees seeking a clearer sense of how affect regulation theory becomes clinical practice
- Anyone interested in the right brain, the unconscious and the science of emotional development
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