Right Brain Affect Regulation – Notes/Rough Outline (partial)

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“Right Brain Affect Regulation:  An Essential Mechanism of Development, Trauma, Dissociation, and Psychotherapy” (Schore, 2012).   (Full Reference – See below)

“Introduction:  Regulation theory and the primacy of affective structures and functions” (Schore, 2012).

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Right Brain Affect Regulation (Schore, 2012)

Ann’s Outline (w/ our own Multiplicity thoughts combined)

07-25-17 @ 9:19AM

1. Right Brain Affect Regulation – Notes (Schore, 2012)
   1. Definitions
      1. Cognitive – The mental activities involved in acquiring and processing information
         1. Cognition – A Cognition – an item of knowledge or belief. i.e. “I AM a Multiple.” See also information processing
      2. Golden Thread – Understanding emotions and behavior as working together —> what’s happening that resolves emotional dilemmas
      3. Implied – Not plainly expressed
      4. Ontogenesis – Development of individual organism – self(s)
      5. Phylogenesis – Development and diversification of an organism (multiple system — selfs)
      6. Physiology – study of functioning of organisms
      7. Primacy – Priority

1. Human Condition
   1. Seek goals (whether known or not)
   2. Ancient emotional systems (independent power – separate from neocortical/cognitive processes)
      1. Priority (Primacy) of affect/emotions
         1. Primary – survive
         2. Secondary – when safe, deal with emotions
            1. Emotional “body-based” survival functions
               1. Each of the self have their own body memories —> they carry-around their own stories
               2. Survival with body memories (holding trauma history) of infant/child sexual abuse
                  1. Periodically “act-out,” or “act-up”
         3. Relational interactions – impact …
            1. Brain Systems – Multiplicity is a system (within brain – as “many” minds)
               1. The selfs within system are implicit (not plainly expressed)
               2. Multiplicity – Internalized other people who were safe, hence (“safe” selfs unconsciously created)
                  1. Survival functions (Infant/child’s) “ability” to stay alive
                  2. Ability (goal/need) to stay alive (as a Multiple system – with self-relationships)
                  3. Live/not die as an “internal system” (love/care)
                  4. Without system, we feel we would perish
                     1. Outer world too dangerous
                        1. Die/not live due to lack of external system (Attachment) love/care
         4. Visualized as layers (multiple selfs) —> promotes cognitive-object relations
            1. Selfs are orphans —> needs basic mother-object-relations
               1. Through Dr. Woollcott and Dr. Marvin, we gain the necessary rich emotional experiences
               2. Build a therapeutic alliance (patient/therapist)
                  1. Emotional communication – right to right brain
                     1. Internally with selfs, externally with Dr. Marvin
                  2. Addresses psychobiological core
                     1. Human processes – caring is essential for selfs’ development
                  3. Psychotherapy change processes (core of therapy) – essential right brain processes
                     1. Interpersonal neurobiology of several right brain processes – reactions
                        1. Nonconscious emotional regulation in self-development
                           1. Trauma-based dissociation affected psychopathogenesis
         5. Regulation Theory – Summary
            1. Primarily, we are emotional structures (selfs) and we are functioning
            2. Critical aspects of human experience
            3. Implicit emotions (implied not expressed), & Explicit emotions (in accordance with facts)
               1. Evolutionary functions
                  1. Primary emotional responses are adaptive
                     1. Feedback —> provides immediate assessment to meet goals/needs interaction w/environment
                     2. Reset organism to meet changing circumstances – affects
                        1. Behavior
                        2. Physiology
                        3. Cognition
                        4. Experiences
                  2. Preserve emotions through body memories and through selfs’ memories
                  3. Phylogenesis —> Multiples —> Develop & diversify
                     1. Survive adaptively —> Right hemisphere’s functions
                        1. Dominant in relational context, at all stages (ages of selfs) of lifespan
                        2. Dominant in relational context in therapy
                  4. Underlying the conscious mind
                     1. Biology/chemical
                     2. Right brain implicit selfs
                  5. Conscious mind
                     1. Intimately involved in the processing of emotional body-based information (shock/trauma)
                     2. Associated w/various motivational states
                        1. Various conscious minds/selfs/ w/various reasons for acting-out behaviorally (at any given time)
                  6. Therapy encounters —> central focus
                     1. Is to appreciate patient’s motivations
                        1. Running story/explains behaviors
                           1. Perceive/recognize emotional experience (whether evident or not)
                        2. Golden thread – access and share patients’ storyline to
                           1. Discover deep-seated emotions in conjunction with behavior being investigated
                           2. What is patient reaching for? Goals?
                           3. Is her method working?

References

Colman, A. M. (2015).  Dictionary of Psychology.  Oxford, UK:  Oxford University Press.

Colman, A. M. (2001).  Dictionary of Psychology.  Oxford, UK:  Oxford University Press.

Schore, A. N. (2012).  Right brain affect regulation:  An essential mechanism of development, trauma, dissociation, and psychotherapy.  In Schore, A. N. The science of the art of psychotherapy (Norton series on interpersonal neurobiology).  New York, NY:  W. W. Norton & Company.

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