To give some brief clinical applications, this adaptive transient regression allows empathic psychobiologically attuned psychotherapists to use their right hemisphere to intuitively listen to the patient’s nonverbal bodily-based emotional communications (face, voice prosody, gesture) that appear in the first 2 years of life, before the verbal left hemisphere.
As opposed to the classical psychodynamic approach of working with later metaphoric and symbolic functions of fully developed object relations and the repressed unconscious, we are now seeing a shift to a form of listening and interacting with the preverbal physiological expressions of the earliest unconscious levels of the personality.
This type of deep listening to the early bodily-based unconscious requires a regression from the therapist’s left mind to right mind.
The clinician’s adaptive regression from left brain-to-left brain verbal communication to right brain-to-right brain communication lies at the core of my therapeutic models of how a shift from analytical left to intuitive right brain allows for listening and responding to the psychophysiology of the unconscious.
Schore, Allan N.. Right Brain Psychotherapy (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) (p. 49). W. W. Norton & Company. 2019, Kindle edition.
