Neuroscience Books
Ways of Attending: How Our Divided Brain Constructs the World
Attention is not just receptive, but actively creative of the world we inhabit. How we attend makes all the difference to the world we experience. And nowadays in the West we generally attend in a... (more)
Building Bridges: The Impact of Neuropsychoanalysis on Psychoanalytic Clinical Sessions
This volume addresses the issue of the clinical relevance of neuroscience to psychoanalysis. New findings are revealing unexpected aspects of neuroscience and pushing the entire field toward... (more)
Re-Thinking Eating Disorders: Language, Emotion, and the Brain - A New Treatment
This book tells the story of what happens in the brain when an eating disorder develops and what has to happen to bring an eating disorder to an end. It describes a new way of thinking about 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)
Borderline Bodies: Affect Regulation Therapy for Personality Disorders
A bold look at the body as a source of contention for those who suffer from personality disorders. People with personality disorders often attack their own bodies through eating disorders and other... (more)
Finding the Body in the Mind: Embodied Memories, Trauma, and Depression
Since the 1990s many different scientific disciplines have intensified their interest in the so called 'mind-body-problem': psychoanalysis, philosophy, academic psychology, cognitive science and... (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)
Mindbrain, Psychoanalytic Institutions, and Psychoanalysts: A New Metapsychology Consistent with Neuroscience
In this book, Antonio Imbasciati criticises the isolationism of traditional psychoanalytic associations, compared to those of other branches of psychology, and their suspicion of neuroscience. Today,... (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)
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Why is the brain divided? The difference between right and left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent... (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 Cradle of Thought: Exploring the Origins of Thinking
The author refutes the notion that thinking is turned on by biologically pre-determined "modules" in the brain, but that it arises from the nature and quality of the relationship between parent and... (more)
The River of Consciousness
In his previous books, Oliver Sacks had addressed questions of the brain and mind through the lens of case histories of individuals with neurological disorders. Recently, however, he had been... (more)
Eastern Influences on Neuropsychotherapy: Accepting, Soothing, and Stilling Cluttered and Critical Minds
This release marks the first in the new series of annual book publications that has evolved from the journal Neuro-Disability and Psychotherapy: A forum for the practice and development of... (more)
The Unconscious: A Bridge Between Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Neuroscience
Psychoanalysis was characterised by Freud as 'the science of the unconscious mind', and he never gave up hope that future developments in the neurosciences might contribute to a scientific foundation... (more)
Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development: Classic Edition
Decades ahead of its time, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self was the first volume to bring together the disparate fields of developmental psychology, psychiatry, and the neural sciences.... (more)
Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five, the brain changes in important, and oftentimes maddening, ways. It's no wonder that many parents approach their child's adolescence with fear and... (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)
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)
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)
Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development and Clinical Practice
We are hardwired to connect with one another, and we connect through our emotions. Our brains, bodies, and minds are inseparable from the emotions that animate them.
Normal human development relies... (more)
When the Body Displaces the Mind: Stress, Trauma and Somatic Disease
Can the mind really generate a physical disease? Conversely, can the body cause mental illness? What do we know today about their interaction? The relations between body and mind are the source of... (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)
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)
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 Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe
This book distills that theory into practical clinical tips, explaining its relevance to the social engagement system and offering clinical examples, including cases of trauma and autism. (more)
The Allan Schore Reader: Setting the Course of Development
Eva Rass, a leading expert on the work of Allan Schore, presents a collection that provides an overview of his core ideas and makes accessible the evolution of his thought. Including interviews and... (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 Secret Life of the Mind: How Our Brain Thinks, Feels and Decides
Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust the judgement of both others and ourselves? What is the role of the unconscious? How can we manipulate our dreams? These are some of... (more)
The Neurobiology of Attachment-Focused Therapy: Enhancing Connection and Trust in the Treatment of Children and Adolescents
How can therapists and caregivers help maltreated children recover what they were born with: the potential to experience the safety, comfort, and joy of having trustworthy, loving adults in their... (more)