Pat Ogden, Ph.D. - Healing Resources

Self-Regulation:(from Allan Schore)Auto regulation is the ability to self regulatealone without other people. It is the ability tocalm oneself down when arousal rises to theupper limits of the window of tolerance or tostimulate oneself when arousal drops to the lowerlimits.Interactive (psychobiological) regulation involvesthe ability to utilize relationships to mitigatebreaches in the window of tolerance, and tostimulate or calm oneself. Ogden 2002