Neuroscience Books
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)
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 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)
Right Brain Psychotherapy
An exploration into the adaptive functions of the emotional right brain, which describes not only affect and affect regulation within minds and brains, but also the communication and iterative... (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)
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 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)
Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and the Stories of Our Lives: The Relational Roots of Mental Health
Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and the Stories of Our Lives: The Relational Roots of Mental Health offers a new understanding of identity and mental health, shining the light of twenty-first century... (more)
Clinical Studies in Neuropsychoanalysis Revisited
In the past few decades, we have accumulated an impressive amount of knowledge regarding the neural basis of the mind. One of the most important sources of this knowledge has been the in-depth study... (more)
The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only survival but also the... (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)
The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are: Third Edition
This highly influential work--now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major advances in the field--gives clinicians, educators, and students a new understanding of what the mind is,... (more)
Mind, Consciousness, and Well-Being
Here, Daniel J. Siegel and Marion F. Solomon have gathered leading writers to discuss such topics as: attention, resilience, and mindfulness; neuroplasticity-how the brain changes its function and... (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)
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)
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 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 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)
The Body Remembers Casebook: Unifying Methods and Models in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD
Each of the complex trauma cases in this volume is presented with a combination of methods ranging from traditional psychodynamic approaches and applications of attachment theory to innovative... (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)
Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices
Deb Dana is the foremost translator of polyvagal theory into clinical practice. Here, in her third book on this groundbreaking theory, she provides therapists with a grab-bag of polyvagal-informed... (more)
Coaching the Brain: Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching
Everything we do, and sense, happens through our brain. In Coaching the Brain: Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching, highly experienced coaches Joseph O'Connor and Andrea Lages ask and... (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)
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)
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)
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)
How People Change: Relationships and Neuroplasticity in Psychotherapy
Growth and change are at the heart of all successful psychotherapy. Regardless of one's clinical orientation or style, psychotherapy is an emerging process that s created moment by moment, between... (more)