PSYCHOANALYTIC RESEARCH: PROGRESS AND PROCESS NOTES FROM ALLAN SCHORE’S GROUPS IN DEVELOPMENTAL AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL PRACTICE

I am again delighted to serve as editor of a series of short articles for the Psychologist Psychoanalyst. The goal of the series, which first appeared as a number of essays on advances in neuroscience and attachment theory in the 2000 and 2001 issues, is to provide a medium for the rapid integration of very recent interdisciplinary data, research, and concepts into the currently dynamically expanding domain of psychoanalytic knowledge. The artices that will appear over a number of upcoming issues are offerings from members of my ongoing Study Groups in Developmental Affective Neuroscience & Clinical Practice which have met here in Los Angeles since 1996. These groups continuously process a rather large volume of current data from a spectrum of disciplines in order to appraise the relevance of this information for psychoanalysis. A major focus is on a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of psychopathogenesis and of psychotherapeutic treatment, especially of disorders that have previously been viewed to be refractory to psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy.