Dr. Allan Schore: How Relationships Shape Your Brain

Creativity

The right brain plays a crucial role in fostering creativity and intuition, often through activities that engage different senses. Andrew Huberman shares how artists like Joni Mitchell use painting to stimulate their creative processes, suggesting that such practices activate right brain circuitry 1. Allan Schore supports this by emphasizing the importance of novel experiences and maintaining a curious mind to enhance right brain functions 2.

Creativity is the ability to see something novel in a new way, to look at the same thing, but through new eyes.

--- Allan Schore

Engaging in diverse activities like music and visualization can help individuals tap into their intuitive capacities, promoting a more holistic understanding of their environment.

   

Therapy

Therapeutic techniques that engage right brain processes are pivotal for emotional healing and psychological development. Allan Schore highlights the significance of right brain synchrony in therapy, where both patient and therapist connect on a deeper emotional level 3. This synchrony, often implicit, allows for the regulation of emotions such as rage and shame, facilitating healing 4.

The key to making changes in the patient is not what you say to the patient or what you do to the patient, it's how to be with the patient.

--- Allan Schore

By focusing on the relational unconscious, therapists can foster meaningful emotional connections, which are crucial for effective psychotherapy.