Neuroscience Books
Being a Brain-Wise Therapist: A Practical Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology
Linking the science of interpersonal neurobiology to the art of therapy, this book translates advances in neuroscience into clinical applications for the practitioner. It argues for scientifically... (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)
Neuroscience and Psychology of Meditation in Everyday Life: Searching for the Essence of Mind
Neuroscience and Psychology of Meditation in Everyday Life addresses essential and timely questions about the research and practice of meditation as a path to realisation of human potential for... (more)
Why Therapy Works: Using Our Minds to Change Our Brains
That psychotherapy works is a basic assumption of anyone who sees a therapist. But why does it work? And why does it matter that we understand how it works? In Why Therapy Works, Louis Cozolino... (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)
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 Interpersonal Neurobiology of Group Psychotherapy and Group Process
Might it be possible that neuroscience, in particular interpersonal neurobiology, can illuminate the unique ways that group processes collaborate with and enhance the brain’s natural developmental... (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)
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
Argues that what is described as the self, or the essence of who a person is, reflects the interactions between the neurons and the synapses in the brain, allowing us to think, act, feel, believe,... (more)
A Student's Dictionary of Psychology and Neuroscience: Seventh Edition
An essential reference work for any student studying psychology for the first time, A Student's Dictionary of Psychology and Neuroscience: Seventh Edition provides over 2,500 definitions of complex... (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)
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 Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain
Simon Baron-Cohen's The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain is an unflinching look at the scientific evidence behind the innate sex differences of the mind. Men and women have... (more)
Alcohol and the Adult Brain
The research literature on the impact of alcohol on the brain has seen a rapid expansion in recent years. Alcohol and the Adult Brain presents an up-to-date overview of some of the issues relevant to... (more)
Art Therapy and Clinical Neuroscience
An authoritative introductory account of the latest developments in neuroscience and its impact on art therapy theory and practice. Contributors explore the complex relationship between art 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)
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Healing the Social Brain: Third Edition
This groundbreaking book explores the recent revolution in psychotherapy that has brought an understanding of the social nature of people's brains to a therapeutic context. Louis Cozolino is a master... (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)
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)
Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter
As scientists study the minutiae of subatomic particles, neural connections, and molecular compounds, their attempts at a theory of everything harbor a glaring omission: they still cannot explain us,... (more)
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)
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)
Textbook of Biological Psychiatry
This textbook integrates the basic science concerning brain mechanisms of psychiatric disorders alongside surveys of standard clinical treatment. Organized in a coherent and easy-to-follow structure,... (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)
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 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)
Psychotherapy in an Age of Neuroscience
Psychotherapy In an Age of Neuroscience is a critique of the neuroscience model that dominates contemporary psychiatric practice. It shows that while the neurosciences have made great advances, this... (more)
Psychodynamic Neurology: Dreams, Consciousness, and Virtual Realty
Our brains plan conscious experience in our sleep using our waking experience only to correct a built-in, virtual reality model of the world that becomes more fully active when we sleep. We become... (more)
Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom
Moral development has traditionally been considered a matter of reasoning. In this integrative book, Darcia Narvaez demonstrates how morality goes “all the way down,” involving neurobiological,... (more)
The Social Neuroscience of Education: Optimizing Attachment and Learning in the Classroom
This book explains how the brain, as a social organism, learns best throughout the lifespan, from our early schooling through late life. Positioning the brain as distinctly social, Louis Cozolino... (more)