Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self

This book, first published in 1994, presents a biopsychosocial model of emotional development, emphasizing the role of the right brain in social, emotional, and survival functions from infancy through later stages of life.

It integrates vast amounts of knowledge from neurobiology, developmental neurochemistry, behavioral neurology, evolutionary biology, developmental psychology, and psychoanalysis to provide a detailed characterization of the early developing brain and its impact on human development.

The work has been hailed as groundbreaking and paradigm-shifting, offering a scientifically testable and clinically relevant model of the human unconscious mind.