Neuroscience Books
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)
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 Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine
A thrilling story of scientific detective work and medical potential that illuminates the newly understood role of microglia, an elusive type of brain cell that is vitally relevant to our everyday... (more)
Our Anxious Selves: Neuropsychological Processes and their Enduring Influence on Who We Are
Discussing the outsized role that fear, anxiety and other distressing emotions play in forming fundamental aspects of who we are.
Adverse experiences inevitably happen during development and... (more)
Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal
A "courageous, compassionate, and rigorous every-person's guide" (Christina Bethell, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) that shows the link between Adverse Childhood Experiences... (more)
Neuropsychoanalysis of the Inner Mind: A Biological Understanding of Human Mental Function
This comprehensive and well-curated collection explores how neuroscience can be integrated into psychoanalytic thinking and practice, reexamining the biological science within psychological... (more)
The Dynamic Self in Psychoanalysis: Neuroscientific Foundations and Clinical Cases
The Dynamic Self in Psychoanalysis builds a bridge between two different but intertwined disciplines-psychoanalysis and neuroscience-by examining the Self and its dynamics at the psychological and... (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)
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)
Attachment and Adult Clinical Practice: An Integrated Perspective on Developmental Theory, Neurobiology, and Emotional Regulation
This comprehensive volume addresses attachment theory's history as well as its integration with neurobiology, psychophysiology, theories of emotion, regulation theory, and mentalization theory. It... (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)
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)
The Neurobiological Basis of Violence: Science and Rehabilitation
In recent years, there has been an explosion of knowledge concerning the developmental processes that lead to persistent violent offending, and in particular, the neurobiological determinants.... (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 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)
Complex Integration of Multiple Brain Systems in Therapy
Enabling patients’ minds to change the structure of their brains.
Integrating groundbreaking research on neuroplasticity, brain development and therapeutic change, this book details a novel... (more)
Polyvagal Safety: Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation
Ever since publication of The Polyvagal Theory in 2011, demand for information about this innovative perspective has been constant. Here Stephen W. Porges brings together his most important writings... (more)
The Unconscious: A bridge between psychoanalysis and cognitive neuroscience
The Unconscious explores the critical interdisciplinary dialogue between psychoanalysis and contemporary cognitive neuroscience. Characterised by Freud as `the science of the unconscious mind',... (more)
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World - New Edition
A new edition of the bestselling classic - published with a special introduction to mark its 10th anniversary. This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain - the... (more)
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)
Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory - The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies
This comprehensive edited collection brings together accomplished therapists, including those who work with children, EMDR, medical trauma, energy psychology, grief and more. All offer clinical... (more)
Neurobiology For Clinical Social Work, Second Edition: Theory and Practice
Powerful and practical tools are coming out of neuroscience research and clinical social workers will learn all about them in this thoroughly revised and updated edition of the now-classic... (more)
The Emotional Foundations of Personality: A Neurobiological and Evolutionary Approach
This book presents the wealth of scientific evidence that our personality emerges from evolved primary emotions shared by all mammals. Yes, your dog feels love-and many other things too. These... (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)
Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain
Joy, sorrow, jealousy and awe - these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. Presumed to be too private for science to explain and not be essential for comprehending human rationality... (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)
Neuro-Philosophy and the Healthy Mind: Learning from the Unwell Brain
Can we see or find consciousness in the brain? How can we create working definitions of consciousness and subjectivity, informed by what contemporary research and technology have taught us about how... (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)
Trauma Therapy and Clinical Practice: Neuroscience, Gestalt and the Body
Therapy with traumatised clients can be fraught with problems and therapists working with these clients seek greater understanding of the specific problems they encounter. Trauma Therapy and Clinical... (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)