Dr. Allan Schore

She's tracking that baby's emotions as they change in time, moment to moment. And then she's synchronizing with that, and that allows her now to be able to regulate it. So we're going from recognizing that baby's emotions synchronizing with those emotions, and then being an affect regulator. So the mother who is securely attached now is a good affect regulator of that baby.

She not only is an affect regulator of the negative states of the baby, because negative states and negative affects are adaptive, By definition.

She not only is an affect regulator of the negative states of the baby, because negative states and negative affects are adaptive, By definition.

She not only is an affect regulator of the negative states of the baby, because negative states and negative affects are adaptive, By definition.

You bet. And that's a signal she's sending there literally. And the mother then intuitively knows, intuitively knows. She's not using her left brain to figure out what to do with that baby. She's doing it intuitively. And intuition is a right brain function. And she's regulating that baby implicitly. Now- let's go back over implicit to explicit, okay?

You bet. And that's a signal she's sending there literally. And the mother then intuitively knows, intuitively knows. She's not using her left brain to figure out what to do with that baby. She's doing it intuitively. And intuition is a right brain function. And she's regulating that baby implicitly. Now- let's go back over implicit to explicit, okay?

You bet. And that's a signal she's sending there literally. And the mother then intuitively knows, intuitively knows. She's not using her left brain to figure out what to do with that baby. She's doing it intuitively. And intuition is a right brain function. And she's regulating that baby implicitly. Now- let's go back over implicit to explicit, okay?

You're seeing a lot now about the shift from explicit to implicit. Something that is implicit goes on at levels beneath awareness. So when she is intuitively knowing what to do, that right now this baby is down-regulating too much and she wants to bring that baby up, she'll now use her tone of voice literally to raise that baby up into a more excited state. Or if the baby is dysregulated,

You're seeing a lot now about the shift from explicit to implicit. Something that is implicit goes on at levels beneath awareness. So when she is intuitively knowing what to do, that right now this baby is down-regulating too much and she wants to bring that baby up, she'll now use her tone of voice literally to raise that baby up into a more excited state. Or if the baby is dysregulated,

You're seeing a lot now about the shift from explicit to implicit. Something that is implicit goes on at levels beneath awareness. So when she is intuitively knowing what to do, that right now this baby is down-regulating too much and she wants to bring that baby up, she'll now use her tone of voice literally to raise that baby up into a more excited state. Or if the baby is dysregulated,

sympathetic hyperarousal, she knows how to downregulate that. And she'll downregulate that by her facial expression, by the tone of her voice. Now her tone of her voice is now trying to soften and to quiet down. So essentially what attachment is, is the regulator of arousal, of emotional arousal. And that emotional arousal also includes the autonomic nervous system.

sympathetic hyperarousal, she knows how to downregulate that. And she'll downregulate that by her facial expression, by the tone of her voice. Now her tone of her voice is now trying to soften and to quiet down. So essentially what attachment is, is the regulator of arousal, of emotional arousal. And that emotional arousal also includes the autonomic nervous system.

sympathetic hyperarousal, she knows how to downregulate that. And she'll downregulate that by her facial expression, by the tone of her voice. Now her tone of her voice is now trying to soften and to quiet down. So essentially what attachment is, is the regulator of arousal, of emotional arousal. And that emotional arousal also includes the autonomic nervous system.

So what we have here is the regulation of attachment of the limbic system, the emotion processing limbic system, positive and negative, and the autonomic nervous system. So they are limbic autonomic circuits, and those circuits are in the right brain. Now, on this matter, as it turns out, the right brain has a control system of attachment.

So what we have here is the regulation of attachment of the limbic system, the emotion processing limbic system, positive and negative, and the autonomic nervous system. So they are limbic autonomic circuits, and those circuits are in the right brain. Now, on this matter, as it turns out, the right brain has a control system of attachment.

So what we have here is the regulation of attachment of the limbic system, the emotion processing limbic system, positive and negative, and the autonomic nervous system. So they are limbic autonomic circuits, and those circuits are in the right brain. Now, on this matter, as it turns out, the right brain has a control system of attachment.

Now, since the right brain is there first before the left because there's no speech at two years, she's regulating this baby at two months, six months, 12 months, all of it is occurring nonverbal. She's doing this implicitly, not explicitly. The left hemisphere processes explicit stimuli, conscious stimuli, rational stimuli. That's not there.

Now, since the right brain is there first before the left because there's no speech at two years, she's regulating this baby at two months, six months, 12 months, all of it is occurring nonverbal. She's doing this implicitly, not explicitly. The left hemisphere processes explicit stimuli, conscious stimuli, rational stimuli. That's not there.

Now, since the right brain is there first before the left because there's no speech at two years, she's regulating this baby at two months, six months, 12 months, all of it is occurring nonverbal. She's doing this implicitly, not explicitly. The left hemisphere processes explicit stimuli, conscious stimuli, rational stimuli. That's not there.

Everything is being done implicitly beneath levels of awareness. And again, that allows it to be the regulation. So attachment theory, my attachment theory, regulation theory is essentially attachment is interactive regulation. Stay with me now. Ultimately, what we have are two forms of regulation. What we're doing is we're regulating the self, right? I mean, it's the subjective self.