Neuroscience Books
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)
A history of the mind
240p 198 x 129 Paperback 1993
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)
A Leg to Stand On
When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position - that of patient. The injury itself was severe, but straightforward... (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)
Social: Why Our Brains are Wired to Connect
Why are we influenced by the behaviour of complete strangers? Why does the brain register similar pleasure when I perceive something as 'fair' or when I eat chocolate? Why can we be so profoundly... (more)
The Brain Health Book: Using the Power of Neuroscience to Improve Your Life
Concerns about memory and other thinking skills are common, particularly in middle age and beyond. Due to worries about declining brain health, some seek out dubious products or supplements... (more)
Mind, Consciousness, and the Cultivation of 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)
Mind to Matter: The Astonishing Science of How Your Brain Creates Material Reality
AS WE TAKE CHARGE OF OUR INDIVIDUAL POWER TO CREATE, WE HAVE THE POTENTIAL, AS A SPECIES, TO CHANGE OUR WORLD. Every creation begins as a thought. Our thoughts travel as electrical impulses along... (more)
Life and Suicide Following Brain Injury: A Personal and Professional Account
Life and Suicide Following Brain Injury tells the story of Tom, a 43 year-old man who acquired a brain injury from a road traffic accident at the age of 22. Tom survived but went on to take his own... (more)
Life After a Rare Brain Tumour and Supplementary Motor Area Syndrome: Awake Behind Closed Eyes
This book offers a personal insight into the experience of Alex Jelly, a professional fundraiser who developed a rare brain tumour, a papillary meningioma, which was successfully removed. She was... (more)
Psychological Therapies in Acquired Brain Injury
The psychological impact of an acquired brain injury (ABI) can be devastating for both the person involved and their family. This book describes the different types of psychological therapies used to... (more)
The Neuropsychology of Dreams: A Clinico-anatomical Study
In this book, Mark Solms chronicles a fascinating effort to systematically apply the clinico-anatomical method to the study of dreams. The purpose of the effort was to place disorders of dreaming on... (more)
Neuroscience, Psychotherapy and Clinical Pragmatism
This volume explores how conceptions of pragmatism set forth in American philosophy serve as orienting perspectives in psychotherapy. Drawing on the influential contributions of William James and... (more)
Brain Imaging: What it Can (and Cannot) Tell Us About Consciousness
Magnetic resonance imaging methods have taken a commanding position in brain studies because they allow scientists to follow brain activities in the living human. The ability to measure cerebral... (more)
The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art Mind and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present
A Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist and author of In Search of Memory documents the work of five leading minds including Sigmund Freud and Gustave Klimt in 1900 Vienna, revealing how their critical... (more)
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs
A Why are we desperate for what we don't have, or can't have, often at great cost to what we do have? Why do we risk our peace and contentment, even our lives? Why are we so moved by our addictions,... (more)
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Postconcussion Syndrome: The New Evidence Base for Diagnosis and Treatment
This is the first neuropsychology book to translate exciting findings from the recent explosion of research on sport-related concussion to the broader context of mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI)... (more)
The Design and Analysis of Experiments in Neuroscience
Intended to meet the needs of a student who wishes to begin research in the field of neuroscience or biological psychology, this book provides background to the scientific method, and the use of both... (more)
Discoveries in the Human Brain: Neuroscience Prehistory, Brain Structure and Function
This illustrated chronicle of discoveries about the brain aims to cover the historical sweep of neuroscience from the second millennium BC to the late 20th century. This engaging and engrossing... (more)
Toward a Science of Consciousness
This volume showcases recent progress in consciousness and is divided into nine sections: the explanatory gap; colour; neural correlates of consciousness; vision; emotion; the evolution and function... (more)
How to Solve the Mind-body Problem
The mind is the brain. Each mental state - hope, fear and thought - can be identified with a particular physical state of the brain. Or so argues Nicholas Humphrey. In this book he offers support for... (more)