Neuroscience Books
Development and Brain Systems in Autism
This volume covers several perspectives on autism which bring together the most recent scientific views of the nature of this disorder. A number of themes organize major developments and emerging... (more)
Being Taken In: The Framing Relationship
Why is love not enough for children whose early lives have been disturbing? What makes it so hard for such children to make the most of new relationships? How can we help children whose minds are... (more)
The Realisation of Concepts: Infinity, Cognition, and Health
There has recently been a flurry of theoretical activity in affective neuroscience and neuropsychoanalysis. This book argues that the ability to integrate biological and psychological levels of... (more)
Wrestling with Destiny: The Promise of Psychoanalysis
Can psychoanalysis help people control their destinies? Using empirical evidence from neuroscience, Lucy Holmes makes a powerful argument that it can. This book considers the various ways in which... (more)
The Mind's Eye
In The Mind's Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities:... (more)
Hallucinations
Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong... (more)
Healing the Traumatized Self: Consciousness, Neuroscience, and Treatment
Cultivation of emotional awareness is difficult, even for those of us not afflicted by serious mental illness. This book discusses the neurobiology behind emotional states and presents exercises for... (more)
Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter
As scientists study the minutiae of subatomic particles, neural connections, and molecular compounds, their attempts at a theory of everything harbor a glaring omission: they still cannot explain us,... (more)
Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience
Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou defy theoretical humanities' deeply-entrenched resistance to engagements with the life sciences. Rather than treat biology and its branches as hopelessly... (more)
Memory and Healing: Neurocognitive and Psychodynamic Perspectives on How Patients and Psychotherapists Remember
This book addresses the current demand to apply findings in neuroscience to a broad spectrum of psychotherapy practices. It offers clear formulations for what has long been missing in how... (more)
Introduction to Neuropsychotherapy: Guidelines for Rehabilitation of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Patients Throughout the Lifespan
This groundbreaking volume provides a theoretical overview and clinical guidelines for the application of neuropsychotherapy. It takes a multidisciplinary approach, combining neuropsychological... (more)
Neuropsychology for Coaches: Understanding the Basics
Neuroscience is revolutionising coaching: it helps us understand the biological basis of our behaviour. This includes the behaviour of the coach and the client. This practical and much needed book... (more)
Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation
Psychotherapy that regularly yields liberating, lasting change was, in the last century, a futuristic vision, but it has now become reality, thanks to a convergence of remarkable advances in clinical... (more)
The Interpersonal Neurobiology of Group Psychotherapy and Group Process
Might it be possible that neuroscience, in particular interpersonal neurobiology, can illuminate the unique ways that group processes collaborate with and enhance the brain’s natural developmental... (more)
8 Keys to Brain-Body Balance
Understanding how our brains and bodies actually work is a powerful tool in mitigating the anxiety generated by unpleasant physical and emotional symptoms that we all may experience from time to... (more)
Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives
The human brain is more beautiful and complex than anything we could ever build but it's far from perfect. Our memory is unreliable; we can't multiply large sums in our heads; advertising manipulates... (more)
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents: From Basic Science to Clinical Management
A cutting-edge synthesis of science and practice, this book covers everything from sports-related concussions to less common types of mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) and related complications.... (more)
The Business of Neuropsychology
The purpose of this text is to provide an overview of basic business principles and how they can be used to enhance the stability and fiscal responsibility of neuropsychological practice. The... (more)
Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain
Explores two questions that have haunted philosophers, neurologists, cognitive scientists and psychologists for centuries: how do brains construct minds, and how do minds become conscious? Antonio... (more)
Neuroscience-Based Cognitive Therapy: New Methods for Assessment Treatment and Self-Regulation
Neuroscience is the most powerful emerging force in the contemporary landscape of psychotherapy. In Neuroscience–based Cognitive Therapy, Tullio Scrimali explores recent advances in neuroscience,... (more)
Clinical Manual of Neuropsychiatry
Clinical Manual of Neuropsychiatry focuses on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of the full spectrum of neuropsychiatric disorders, as well as those conditions that have significant... (more)
Brain-Based Parenting: How Neuroscience Can Foster Healthier Relationships with Kids
In this groundbreaking exploration of the brain mechanisms behind healthy caregiving, attachment specialist Daniel A. Hughes and veteran clinical psychologist Jonathan Baylin guide readers through... (more)
Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology: An Integrative Handbook of the Mind
Many fields have explored the nature of mental life from psychology to psychiatry, literature to linguistics. Yet no common framework where each of these important perspectives can be honored and... (more)
Clinical Intuition in Psychotherapy: The Neurobiology of Embodied Response
A systematic look at the role of "gut feelings" in psychotherapy.
What actually happens in psychotherapy, outside the confines of therapeutic models and techniques? How can clinicians learn to... (more)
The Social Neuroscience of Education: Optimizing Attachment and Learning in the Classroom
This book explains how the brain, as a social organism, learns best throughout the lifespan, from our early schooling through late life. Positioning the brain as distinctly social, Louis Cozolino... (more)
How To Think Like a Neandertal
There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals - some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or... (more)