Dr. Allan Schore

And frequently what happens when you're in an emotional connection like that, images will come to your mind. Images which really represent the emotional experience that the other is having. And at that point in time also, what you'll find is that just as you're picking up that person's image, he's picking up your person image.

And what Hammer says is that what we have here is something that's alike an affective wireless between the two, because it's going back and forth between the two of us, just like a right brain to right brain communication, affective by. Freud said, The human unconscious acts like a receptor and it picks up the communications of the unconscious of another human being.

Freud said literally human beings can pick up the unconscious without it going through the conscious mind. So again, in that kind of a context, you know, that all makes sense. The other thing I want to say about all of these behaviors that are going on now when there is an emotional communication. The key is spontaneous behaviors. Spontaneous. Not thought-out behaviors. Spontaneous behaviors.

When there's spontaneous behaviors, there's more trust in them being, you know, in the first place. But there's not a mind that is attempting to present anything. And when you have two people revealing their spontaneous behaviors to each other, even if they're not sure how they're going to be affected. That also is a matter for synchrony.

In order for there to be synchrony, there has to be spontaneous two-way communications, turn-taking communications. And incidentally, as we talk about this conversation, what is set up in the attachment between the mother and the infant, the infant makes a cry, the mother responds, is that they are now taking turns. There's turn-taking behavior.

And in a good relationship, what you find is more or less smooth turn-taking behaviors. And incidentally, you and I, who have never met before, are not doing too badly in these spontaneous turn-taking behaviors between us.

I agree. I agree. First of all, let me mention that one of Ian's ideas is that essentially the left hemisphere is becoming more and more dominant today, not only in this country. And he sees that as really as a huge problem because the title of his book is The Master and His Emissary. And the emissary, which is the left brain, betrays the master.

So he sees that one of the problems we're dealing with right now is that the left hemisphere is there and that these right hemispheres, even metaphors are problematic.

In terms of literally... point of the letter and the attempt of the letter literally was to make a connection.

I can remember in my childhood going away to camp and we would write letters back and forth and the words that were being used there were literally about making a connection and filling you in, which also meant that I had to reflect about myself and what was happening with me and how I felt about that and I was sharing all of that you know, with another person.

That has really gone into the background. And things have become much more impersonal. But I want to point out that for a certain type of personality, texting fits perfectly.

People, you know, living in the left. Living in the left, that's right. I just want to point out there are other ways, literally, of feeding the right brain of what it needs. And one of the other ways also is going out into the world, is traveling, is being in nature, sharing those kinds of things. Those are also in addition to the in-person situations here. Yeah, we're seeing changes here.

We're seeing changes here, and I'm not so sure too many of these are good. Let me throw out, I made a little list of the areas which are now being studied, which are showing that clearly this is right brain dominance in these activities.

Stop me at any point. Essentially, the argument that I'm making in this new book on human nature is that the highest levels of human nature are in the right brain. So essentially, intuition, Now remember, intuition is there for all kinds of professions. One of the things that a fireman gains over time is literally how to read a fire.

So intuition, purely right brain, and intuition literally is drawing on body sensations also, et cetera. Imagery. Creativity. Lot of evidence showing creativity, the ability to processing something novel and something new. Metaphors. Imagination. Studies. Humor. Music. Poetry. Art. morality, compassion, spirituality, and the best for last, love.

I threw an ad for the next book.

Get to development of the unconscious mind also.

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Yeah, yeah. Two points here. First of all, on therapy, I think there's been too much of an emphasis on technique in therapy. And really what the right brain research is showing is that it's the right brain process that's the key here more than the technique.

And so that being the case, due to my own training, psychotherapy has shown to be more effective in making long-term changes and even changes after the treatment is over than other forms of therapy like CBT. So I think there's been too much on that. On the matter of other experiences, The right brain is also dominant for processing novel information.