Schore, Allan N.The Right Brain and the Origin of Human Nature. W. W. Norton. 2025. Pp. xxxii + 427. Hbk. $45.99.

The Right Brain and the Origin of Human Nature is a profound capstone to his decades of groundbreaking interdisciplinary work.In this deeply integrative book, Schore synthesizes his pioneering thought in interpersonal neurobiology, affect regulation, developmental neuroscience, trauma, and psychotherapy into a compelling vision of how human subjectivity takes shape in the body, relationships, and the unconscious mind.For Jungian analysts, this book offers a rich developmental language for realities we know intimately in practice: the visceral currents of affect, the communicative power of the body, the mutual field, and the birth of symbols.Schore states his guiding question clearly: "The most fundamental question about the human experience is not how does the conscious mind work, but how does the unconscious mind operate?" (p.xxi, italics mine).That question goes to the heart of analytical psychology.What follows is not an overlay of neuroscience onto Jungian psychology, but a beautifully articulated scaffolding to support Jungian clinicians in what they encounter: image, affect, rupture and repair, transference-countertransference, dissociation, play, imagination, and the emergence of a self that can feel, reflect, and relate.Particularly valuable for depth psychotherapists is the way Schore's interpersonal neurobiology converges with Jung's understanding of transformation in the analytic field.Jung intuited that analyst and patient engage in unconscious-to-unconscious communication within the alchemical vessel-psyche working upon psyche beneath conscious intention.Schore renders Jung's intuition visible as right-brain-to-right-brain synchrony between patient and therapist.Both Jung and Schore move us beyond the idea that healing is primarily linguistic or rational, towards an embodied two-person field in which affective attunement, somatic resonance, and shared regulation make structural change possible.Jung wrote that the meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed (Jung, 1929(Jung, /1966, para.163), para.163).Schore offers a All rights reserved, including rights for text and data mining and training of artificial intelligence technologies or similar technologies.