Dr. Allan Schore: How Relationships Shape Your Brain

2358.177 - 2385.588 Dr. Allan Schore

So the key of the first session, literally, is not only to diagnose, really it's to start to begin to synchronize with that patient and to form a therapeutic alliance with that patient. And at the end of the first session, the patient may say, I don't know why, but I'm feeling better, and I have some idea that you can understand, but it's got to be more than that, what I am feeling, literally.