A new and cutting-edge volume featuring original works from one of the most prominent figures in the field of neurobiological models of mental health.
This book represents the culmination of three decades of pioneering work by Alan Shore, and explains in detail how the right brain-the psychological-biological locus of Freud's unconscious mind-plays a fundamental role in the early origin of human nature (general characteristics and feelings attributed to humans).The role of the developing right brain in the early stages not only anchors our subjective experience of the body-based world, but also allows us to understand it.
This volume provides interdisciplinary and clinical evidence suggesting that during human childhood, the interaction between the selves in the right hemisphere of the brain (the emotional communication between unconscious minds) and attachment (the unconscious reactive regulation of emotion) forms the core foundation of human personality.Under consciousness, the right hemisphere of the brain that develops early generates the emotional capacity for both love and hate, euphoria and pain, good and evil, tolerance and revenge, creativity and destruction - all products of the innermost layer of human nature.
