Neuroscience Books
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)
Wisdom of the Psyche: Beyond Neuroscience: Revised Edition
The first edition of Wisdom of the Psyche engaged with one of the main dilemmas of contemporary psychology and psychotherapy: how to integrate findings and insights from neuroscience and medicine... (more)
Neural Plasticity Across the Lifespan: How the Brain Can Change
Neural Plasticity Across the Lifespan reviews the recent scientific developments which are transforming our understanding of the human brain. For many years it was thought that modifications to the... (more)
Neuroscience and Critique: Exploring the Limits of the Neurological Turn
Recent years have seen a rapid growth in neuroscientific research, and an expansion beyond basic research to incorporate elements of the arts, humanities and social sciences. It has been suggested... (more)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
'Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness' Guardian In his most extraordinary book,... (more)
Emotions, Learning, and the Brain: Exploring the Educational Implications of Affective Neuroscience
A neuroscience revolution is making its way into classrooms around the country, changing the way we understand how emotions influence thinking and learning. This book makes available the most... (more)
Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience: A Brain-Mind Odyssey
A fresh take on contemporary brain science research, this book presents neuroscience-the scientific study of brain, mind and behaviour-in easy-to-understand ways with a focus on concepts of interest... (more)
Evolution, Early Experience and Human Development: From Research to Practice and Policy
The field of cognitive psychology has expanded rapidly in recent years, with experts in affective and cognitive neuroscience revealing more about mammalian brain function than ever before. In... (more)
Neuropsychology: V.1
Neuropsychology: Science and Practice I - Review and Commentary is the first publication to provide a critical summary of the recent literature in the science and practice of clinical... (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)
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)
Understanding Other Minds - Perspectives from Developmental Social Neuroscience: Third Revised Edition
This book comprises 26 exciting chapters by internationally renowned scholars, addressing the central psychological process separating humans from other animals: the ability to imagine the thoughts... (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)
Neurobiology and Mental Health Clinical Practice: New Directions, New Challenges
This book illustrates the current findings of interpersonal neurobiology from leading mental health clinician-scholars that inform knowledge building and clinical practice. Representing the fields of... (more)
The Brain, the Mind and the Self: A Psychoanalytic Road Map
Psychoanalysis enjoyed an enormous popularity at one time, but has recently fallen out of favour as new psychiatric medications have dominated the treatment of mental illness and a new interest in... (more)
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences... (more)
Art Therapy With Neurological Conditions
By creating a therapeutic outlet for self-expression and processing trauma, art therapy can play a powerful role in assisting people with a brain injury or neurological condition to adjust to living... (more)
The Psychomatrix: A Deeper Understanding of Our Relationship with Pain
What is pain? What does it mean to have a relationship with it and how does this affect your identity and existence? Doreen Francis' definition of pain is derived from that proposed by scientists,... (more)
Art Therapy and the Neuroscience of Relationships, Creativity, and Resiliency: Skills and Practices
The relational context is the most important component of arts-based therapy work. This book demonstrates how this is so, explains the major art relational neuroscience principles relevant to art... (more)
The Neuropsychology of the Unconscious: Integrating Brain and Mind in Psychotherapy
More than one hundred years after Freud began publishing some of his seminal theories, the concept of the unconscious still occupies a central position in many theoretical frameworks and clinical... (more)
The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia
This is a classic edition of Christopher Frith's award winning book on cognitive neuropsychology and schizophrenia, which now includes a new introduction from the author. The book explores the signs... (more)
The Logic of Self-Destruction: The Algorithm of Human Rationality
Understanding ourselves is the most complex problem that mankind has ever addressed. Figuring out whether time can flow backwards or why seagulls have yellow beaks is a cinch in comparison. Part of... (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 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)
A History of the Brain: From Stone Age Surgery to Modern Neuroscience
A History of the Brain tells the full story of neuroscience, from antiquity to the present day. It describes how we have come to understand the biological nature of the brain, beginning in... (more)
Identity Unknown: How Acute Brain Disease Can Destroy Knowledge of Oneself and Others
Imagine being unable to recognise your spouse, your children, or even yourself when you look in the mirror, despite having good eyesight and being able to read well and name objects. This is a... (more)
Effective Psychotherapy for Individuals with Brain Injury
Combining scientific expertise with psychotherapeutic acumen, this book is highly accessible and packed with clinical tools. Part I provides essential information on how acquired brain injury affects... (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)
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)
Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Definitive Guide for Educators
Developmental deficits in learning and communication in young children are defined as neurodevelopmental disorders. This constellation, newly defined in the DSM-5, represents a range of issues that... (more)