Neuroscience Books
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
A new theory of consciousness and the construction of identity focuses on the body's reaction to its world, postulating that a complex relationship between body, emotion, and mind is required to... (more)
Disorders of Affect Regulation: Alexithymia in Medical and Psychiatric Illness
Here, the authors present recent thinking about the development and regulation of emotions, and argue that several common but difficult-to-treat psychiatric illnesses, including drug addictions, are... (more)
The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
Much of our emotional life is lived unconsciously and is far richer than our conscious feelings, for example, our unconscious mind will already be reacting to situations of danger some time before we... (more)
The Language Instinct
Looks at one of the most fundamental of our species' distinguishing characteristics: the use of language. The author argues that our language abilities are part of our genetic inheritance, not a... (more)
Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development
During the past decade a diverse group of disciplines have simultaneously intensified their attention upon the scientific study of emotion. This proliferation of research on affective phenomena has... (more)
The Neurobiological and Developmental Basis for Psychotherapeutic Intervention
This text addresses the relationship between early experiences and later difficulties in life. With contributions from researchers in this field, it presents a synthesis of psychoanalysis with... (more)
Memory in mind and brain - what dream imagery reveals
The nature of memory, dreams, and how the brain works is explored in this text. The author takes a multidiscipliniary approach, using data from neuroscience, psychology, biology and artificial... (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)
Psychodynamics and Cognition
Outlines ways that methods and ideas from cognitive and information science can be used to reformulate psychoanalytic concepts and to test them outside the psychoanalytic situation. Based on a 1984... (more)
A Moment of Transition: Two Neuroscientific Articles by Sigmund Freud
Translations of two neuroscientific articles by Freud are presented here for the first time in English. Alongside these, the editors offer convincing arguments for their importance to both... (more)
Neuroaesthetics and Psychoanalysis: Curiosity, Creativity, and Crisis
This book looks at the fundamental question of why we take pleasure in art through a relatively new perspective of neuroaesthetics and explores the close links between cognitive and affective... (more)
When the Brain Can’t Cope: Introducing Brain Fatigue Syndrome
When the Brain Can't Cope: Introducing Brain Fatigue Syndrome is a groundbreaking book pioneering the clinical condition of Brain Fatigue Syndrome, characterized by cognitive, emotional, and sensory... (more)
The Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain
Can the mind be explained by what we know about the brain? Is a person’s being determined by their body alone or by their mind and body as separate elements? In this incisive and engaging book,... (more)
Executive Functioning and Psychotherapy: The New Neuroscience of Adaptive Intelligence
A new model of executive functioning which illuminates the somatic, social and emotional influences on how we make decisions.
Executive functioning (EF) can be defined as a person’s ability to... (more)
Brain Injury, Trauma and Loss: Rehabilitation During Covid-19
Using a combination of lived experience, clinical insight, and academic research, this book explores the impact of Covid-19 on brain injury rehabilitation to both assist with current treatment and... (more)
Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the question of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings in neuroscience, psychology... (more)
The Ideological Brain: A Radical Science of Susceptible Minds
Why do some people become radicalized? Who is most susceptible to ideological thinking? Can we unchain our minds from toxic dogmas?
Drawing on her groundbreaking research, Dr Leor Zmigrod... (more)
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
The arts can deliver potent, accessible and proven solutions for the wellbeing of everyone.
In this book, Magsamen and Ross offer compelling research that shows how engaging in an art project... (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)
Explorations Between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: At the Edge of Mind and Brain
Explorations Between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience brings together the life's work of David Olds, pioneering psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, philosopher, and key figure in... (more)
Belonging After Brain Injury: Relocating Dan
Belonging After Brain Injury: Relocating Dan explores the life of the author’s brother who has dealt with the effects of a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) for over four decades. It recounts the... (more)
Neuropsychological Consequences of COVID-19: Life After Stroke and Balint's Syndrome
Neuropsychological Consequences of COVID-19 focuses on Anjana’s journey as a COVID survivor following a brain injury that left her with a very rare neuropsychological syndrome called Balint’s... (more)
Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies That Really Work
All behavior makes sense 'It most certainly does not!, is probably your first reaction. Parenting and neuroscience expert Robyn Gobbel is here to reveal how all behavior, no matter how baffling, can... (more)
Unlocking the Nature of Human Aggression: A Psychoanalytic and Neuroscientific Approach
Unlocking the Nature of Human Aggression is a neuropsychoanalytic and scientific exploration of aggression and argues for its central role in psychopathology and the genesis of individual symptoms,... (more)
The Spirit of the Drive in Neuropsychoanalysis
The Spirit of the Drive in Neuropsychoanalysis gives a concise introduction to the basics of neuropsychoanalysis, both theoretically and clinically.
Kinet uses a colloquial approach to discuss... (more)
The Science and Art of Dreaming
The Science and Art of Dreaming is an innovative text that reviews the neuroscience and psychology of how dreams are produced, how they are recalled and their relationship to waking life events and... (more)
Systemic Approaches to Brain Injury Treatment: Navigating Contemporary Practice
This book is an exploration of key systemic and socio-political considerations when working with people whose lives have been impacted by neurological injury and those who care for them.
Expert... (more)
Educational Neuroscience: The Basics
Educational Neuroscience: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this emerging, interdisciplinary field. It explains how the brain works and its priorities for learning, and shows how educational... (more)
The Male Brain
From the author of the groundbreaking, international bestseller The Female Brain comes this eagerly awaited follow-up.
Did you know that the male brain…
*is a lean, mean problem-solving... (more)
The Female Brain
In this groundbreaking book, Dr Louann Brizendine describes the uniquely flexible structure of the female brain and its constant, dynamic state of change - the key difference that separates it from... (more)