Clinical Legacy Series
Allan Schore: The Right Brain, Affect Regulation and the Emotional Self
Allan Schore’s recorded Legacy Interview with special guests Clara Mucci and Daniel Hill, currently being edited for release early next week, followed by a live four-hour Clinical Masterclass with Allan Schore.
Interview Recording Pre-Purchase Open | Available Early Next Week
Masterclass: 17 September 2026 | Live Online | Recording Included
About the series
This two-part MINDinMIND Clinical Series includes access to the Legacy Interview recording, which is currently being edited and will be ready early next week. In the Interview held on 3 September, Allan Schore, one of the most influential clinical thinkers of the last half-century, joined Jane O’Rourke to reflect on his life, contribution to psychotherapy and to our understanding of attachment, affect regulation and the developing right brain. On 17 September, Allan will lead a four-hour Clinical Masterclass taking these ideas further into clinical application.
Across more than three decades, Allan Schore has integrated psychoanalysis, attachment theory, developmental neuroscience, affective neuroscience and trauma research into a psychobiological account of emotional and social development across the lifespan. At the centre of this work is the early developing right brain: the system through which affect is regulated, the implicit self takes shape and the unconscious is first organised. His work has been a major catalyst in the emotional revolution in psychotherapy, shifting attention from behaviour and cognition alone towards emotion, bodily state, unconscious communication and relational regulation.
His central contribution is to show how the self is formed through early emotional relationships, how relational trauma can disrupt the development of affect regulation, and how psychotherapy can work with patterns of implicit, bodily affective communication and regulation laid down before words. In this sense, Schore’s work gives clinicians a neurobiological and psychoanalytic language for what happens beneath speech, in the living affective field between patient and therapist.
In the MINDinMIND Legacy Interview recorded on 3 September, Allan looked back with Jane at his childhood, his clinical beginnings and the development of a body of work that culminated in his 2025 capstone volume, The Right Brain and the Origin of Human Nature. He reflected on what he most wants clinicians to understand now about affect, the body, the unconscious, implicit affect regulation and the right brain. The interview also opened up the breadth of Allan’s thinking, from early attachment trauma, PTSD and borderline states to love, culture and the biological roots of relational life.
Clara Mucci and Daniel Hill joined Allan in the conversation, each showing how his work has been taken up in clinical practice. Clara has taken affect regulation theory into her work with trauma, dissociation and borderline states, with particular attention to the body and early relational trauma. Dan Hill, author of Affect Regulation Theory: A Clinical Model, shows how affect regulation theory, attachment, developmental trauma, implicit process and psychotherapy can be brought together in everyday clinical work.
In his live four hour Masterclass on 17 September, Allan will take clinicians deeper into how affect regulation, right-brain communication and the body work moment by moment in therapy.
This is a chance to slow down and look closely at the implicit, nonverbal level of the therapeutic relationship: how a clinician reads and responds to a patient’s shifting affective and bodily states, how dysregulation is met and repaired, and how the therapist’s own right brain, nervous system and interoceptive responses become part of the clinical dialogue.
This is an opportunity to hear one of the most influential thinkers in modern psychotherapy reflect on the full arc of his contribution.
You can pre-purchase access to the Legacy Interview recording separately, book the Clinical Masterclass separately, or choose the Legacy Series for access to the Interview recording as soon as it is ready early next week and a Masterclass ticket at the reduced series price.
Together, the Legacy Interview and Masterclass provide both the context in which this thinking developed and the clinical judgement required to apply it in contemporary practice.
For more details about the Legacy Interview and Masterclass, please scroll further down the page.
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Legacy Interview recording pre-purchase
Recorded 3 September 2026
- 2-hour interview recording, available early next week
- Access in your account as soon as editing is complete
- 2-hour CPD/CE certificate
£39.00
Pre-purchase – add to basketThe Allan Schore Legacy Series
Interview recording pre-purchase open
- Recording of the 2-hour Legacy Interview held on 3 September 2026, available early next week
- Ticket to the 4-hour Clinical Masterclass on 17 September 2026 (live online + recording access)
- Legacy Interview recording access as soon as editing is complete early next week, plus the Masterclass recording when available
- 6-hour CPD/CE certificate
- Selected readings and resources drawn from Allan Schore's work
- Access to a global community of clinicians thinking together at the live Masterclass
£99.00
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Book the Legacy SeriesClinical Masterclass only
17 September 2026
- 4-hour live online teaching session
- Recording access
- 4-hour CPD/CE certificate
- Selected readings and resources drawn from Allan Schore's work
£78.00
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Part I: Legacy Interview Recording
The Right Brain, Affect Regulation and the Emotional Self
Recorded 3 September 2026 | Recording available early next week
In the Legacy Interview recording, 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 changed over time, and what he most wants therapists to understand now about affect, the body, the unconscious, implicit affect regulation and the right brain in the consulting room.
His special guest Clara Mucci brought the view from work with trauma, dissociation and borderline states, asking what changes when affect regulation is placed at the heart of treatment. Daniel Hill brought the everyday consulting room into view, reflecting on how affect regulation theory becomes something a working clinician can use.
The recorded conversation addresses these important clinical issues:
- How Allan built regulation theory by bringing neuroscience, attachment research, developmental studies and psychoanalysis into conversation
- The three revolutions he sees in the field, from the behavioural model to the cognitive model to the centrality of the emotions
- Why the early right brain, shaped in the first relationships, became central to his account of emotional development
- Why implicit affect regulation, rather than explicit, conscious 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 sees the unconscious as embodied, affective and grounded in right-brain process
- What Clara Mucci has learned about trauma, dissociation and borderline states by placing affect regulation at the centre of treatment
- How Dan Hill translates affect regulation theory into a clinical model that therapists across modalities can use
£39.00
Pre-purchase – add to basketPart II: Clinical Masterclass
Affect Regulation in the Consulting Room
17 September 2026 | 5pm-9pm UK | 12pm-4pm ET
In this four-hour Masterclass, Allan moves into the clinical application of his work, taking clinicians deeper into how affect regulation, right-brain communication and the body work moment to moment in therapy.
Allan has chosen to divide the session into 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.
This is a chance to slow down and look closely at the implicit, nonverbal level of the therapeutic relationship: how a clinician reads and responds to a patient’s shifting affective and bodily states, how dysregulation is met and repaired, and how the therapist’s own right brain and nervous system become part of the clinical dialogue.
Drawing on the parallel between the early caregiver-infant relationship and the relationship between therapist and patient, Allan shows how change comes through the affective, relational encounter itself, not through insight, interpretation or conscious reflection alone. For clinicians, the force of his work lies in its insistence that psychotherapy must work directly with emotion, bodily state and implicit relational communication, as well as with narrative and meaning. He teaches through the close analysis of clinical case material.
Key questions include:
- 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 and infant relationship serve as a template for the regulating work of therapy?
- How can the therapist help regulate and repair dysregulation in the room?
- How can the therapist read their own bodily and emotional responses as information about the patient’s non-conscious states?
- How does right-brain-to-right-brain communication shape the therapeutic relationship?
- Why might heightened affective moments, rather than moments of insight, be central to therapeutic change?
The session will explore:
- Implicit affect regulation in clinical practice
- Right-brain-to-right-brain communication, and why the relationship itself carries the change
- The caregiver and infant dyad as a model for the two-person work of therapy
- The therapist’s own bodily and interoceptive responses as clinical information, a neurobiological reading of countertransference
- Relational trauma, dissociation and early-forming disturbances of the self
- Application to treatment of borderline personality disorder in reenactments of attachment trauma in the therapeutic alliance, in interactive repair, and in the movement from rupture back to connection
- The unconscious as embodied, affective and grounded in right-brain process
- Working directly with emotion across different forms of psychotherapy
About 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.
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 Allans’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
£99.00
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