Neuroscience Books
The Right Brain and the Origin of Human Nature
A new, cutting-edge volume of original work from a luminary in neurobiologically-informed models of mental health.
The culmination of three decades of Allan Schore’s groundbreaking work, this... (more)
Sex in the Brain: A Neuropsychosexual Approach to Love and Intimacy
An overview of what happens in the brain during the development of romantic and sexual relationships, from the intense emotions at the start on to kissing, touch, arousal, orgasm, commitment,... (more)
The Brain has a Mind of its Own: Attachment, Neurobiology and the New Science of Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a practice in search of a theory. Recent advances in relational neuroscience and attachment research now offer convincing avenues for understanding how the 'talking cure' helps... (more)
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Healing the Social Brain: Fourth Edition
A new edition of the classic text that links neuroscience and human behaviour in a therapeutic context.
This ground-breaking book explores the revolution in psychotherapy that brought an... (more)
The God of the Left Hemisphere: Blake, Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation
The God of the Left Hemisphere explores the remarkable connections between the activities and functions of the human brain that writer William Blake termed 'Urizen' and the powerful complex of... (more)
The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy
For decades Allan Schore has been a leader in developing an overarching model of people’s social and emotional development, integrating work from psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, attachment... (more)
The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain: Second Edition
A revised edition of the best-selling text on how relationships build our brains.
As human beings, we cherish our individuality yet we know that we live in constant relationship to others, and... (more)
The Feeling Brain: Selected Papers on Neuropsychoanalysis
Neuropsychoanalysis is the fastest growing area within psychoanalysis, providing a bridge between "classic" psychoanalysis and the neurological sciences. This book provides an accessible introduction... (more)
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
How does the mind connect to the body? Why does it feel like something to be us? For one of the boldest thinkers in neuroscience, solving this puzzle has been a lifetime's quest. Now at last, the man... (more)
Imagination: The Science of Your Mind's Greatest Power
The first-ever book on the science of imagination, which sheds light on both the complex inner-workings of our mind and the ways in which we can channel imagination for a better life.
We don’t... (more)
The Wisdom of Lived Experience: Views from Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience, Philosophy and Metaphysics
In our quest toward truth we often rely on the guidance and clarity of conscious thought, but in doing so we may bypass awareness of a more deeply informing resource, which is embodied in lived... (more)
Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
New in paperback, this comprehensive text on the fundamental brain sources of human and animal feelings summarizes up-to-date information about the subcortical operating systems that organize 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)
Lost in Cognition: Psychoanalysis and the Cognitive Sciences
This book examines the pretensions of the new paradigm in psychology that has put itself forward as the model for the future of the clinical disciplines, thereby seeking to put paid to... (more)
The Development of the Unconscious Mind
This book traces the evolution of the concept of the unconscious from an intangible, metapsychological abstraction to a psychoneurobiological function of a tangible brain. An integration of current... (more)
Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Calming the Fear-Driven Brain
The brain’s circuitry reveals much about its role in our emotional stability and resilience. Neurofeedback allows clinicians to guide their clients as they learn to transform these brain-wave... (more)
Sex, Death, and the Superego: Updating Psychoanalytic Experience and Developments in Neuroscience
This second edition of Ronald Britton's personal reappraisal of psychoanalytic theories is based on further clinical experience, further study of current neuroscience and continued reflection on the... (more)
The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation
Written for all therapists who want to understand this groundbreaking theory as it might actually show up in their day-to-day practice, this book offers a comprehensive approach to polyvagal-informed... (more)
The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotion
A look at the seven emotional systems of the brain - seeking, lust, rage, fear, care, grief, and play - by the researcher who discovered them. This book provides an easy-to-understand explanation of... (more)
Affect Regulation 2-Volume Set: Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self and Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self
Two volume set containing Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self and Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self
Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self
Building on his... (more)
The Brain and the Inner World: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subjective Experience
This work is an eagerly awaited account of this momentous and ongoing revolution, elaborated for the general reader by two pioneers of the field. The book takes the nonspecialist reader on a guided... (more)
Clinical Studies in Neuro-psychoanalysis: Introduction to a Depth Neuropsychology: Second Edition
When the first edition of Clinical studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis was published in 2000, it was hailed as a turning point in psychoanalytic research. It is now relied on as a model for the... (more)
Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience: A Brain-Mind Odyssey
A fresh take on contemporary brain science research, this book presents neuroscience-the scientific study of brain, mind and behaviour-in easy-to-understand ways with a focus on concepts of interest... (more)
Unrepressed Unconscious, Implicit Memory, and Clinical Work
Unrepressed Unconscious, Implicit Memory, and Clinical Work analyses the psychological and neurobiological characteristics of what nowadays goes under the name of “unrepressed unconscious”, as... (more)
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences... (more)
Brain, Attachment, Personality: An Introduction to Neuroaffective Development
This book is intended as an inspiration and as an introduction to what Susan Hart has called neuroaffective developmental psychology. As an underlying theme throughout the book, she seeks to... (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)
The Brain-Savvy Therapists Workbook: A Companion to Being a Brain-Wise Therapist
Chock-full of exercises and strategies, this book will allow clients to deepen the key principles of interpersonal neurobiology that Bonnie Badenoch wrote about in her earlier book. Topics include... (more)
Neuro-Hypnosis: Using Self-Hypnosis to Activate the Brain for Change
Presented here is the latest research on the neurological processes that occur during hypnosis. Readers are provided with the tools needed to use self-hypnosis to address a number of concerns, from... (more)