Neuroscience Books
Neurobiology of PTSD: From Brain to Mind
Neurobiology of PTSD outlines the basic neural mechanisms that mediate complex responses and adaptations to psychological trauma, describing how these biological processes are impaired in individuals... (more)
You & Me: The Neuroscience of Identity
What is it that makes you distinct from me? Identity is a term much used but hard to define. For that very reason, it has long been a topic of fascination for philosophers but has been regarded with... (more)
A Day in the Life of the Brain: The Neuroscience of Consciousness from Dawn Till Dusk
A world-renowned neuroscientist illuminates the science of consciousness by exploring a single day in the life of the brain.
Each of us has a unique, subjective inner world, one that we can... (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)
Brain Bytes: Quick Answers to Quirky Questions About the Brain
From magazine covers to Hollywood blockbusters, neuroscience is front and centre. This popular interest has inspired many questions from people who wonder just what is going on in the three pounds of... (more)
The New Mind-Body Science of Depression
Depression has often been studied, but this multifaceted disease remains far from understood. Here, leading researchers present a major new view of the disorder that synthesises multiple lines of... (more)
Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
Time is the most common noun in the English language yet philosophers and scientists don't agree about what time actually is or how to define it. Perhaps this is because the brain tells, represents... (more)
Dreams, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Mind, Body, and the Question of Time
Dreams, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis sets out to give a scientific consistency to the question of time and find out how time determines brain functioning. Neurological investigations into dreams... (more)
Collaborative Therapy and Neurobiology: Evolving Practices in Action
Collaborative Therapy and Neurobiology is the book many clinicians have been waiting for: an integration of twenty years of scientific and therapeutic cutting-edge ideas into concrete clinical... (more)
The Neuropsychodynamic Treatment of Self-Deficits: Searching for Complementarity
The Neuropsychodynamic Treatment of Self-Deficits examines how to work psychoanalytically with patients to address the problems that result from neuropsychological impairments, exploring the latest... (more)
Denial: Self-Deception, False Beliefs, and the Origins of the Human Mind
The history of science abounds with momentous theories that disrupted conventional wisdom and yet were eventually proven true. Ajit Varki and Danny Brower's "Mind over Reality" theory is poised to be... (more)
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
How does our brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks to clever psychological and brain-imaging experiments, scientists are closer to... (more)
Metapsychology and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis: Attachment, Neuropsychoanalysis and Integration
Metapsychology and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis redresses faults in Freud's original conception to develop a coherent theoretical basis for psychodynamic theory. Simon Boag demonstrates that... (more)
Creative Psychotherapy: Applying the Principles of Neurobiology to Play and Expressive Arts-Based Practice
Creative Psychotherapy brings together the expertise of leading authors and clinicians from around the world to synthesise what we understand about how the brain develops, the neurological impact of... (more)
Inclusion, Play and Empathy: Neuroaffective Development in Children's Groups
Contributions from early childhood educators, teachers, psychologists, music therapists, occupational therapists, and psychotherapists highlight the crucial role that early relationships and... (more)
Neuroscience for the Mental Health Clinician: Second Edition
Accessible and succinct, this book has given thousands of clinicians and students the basic understanding of neuroscience that is essential in contemporary mental health practice. Steven R. Pliszka... (more)
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
'We were never born to read', says Maryanne Wolf. 'No specific genes ever dictated reading's development. Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this invention, we... (more)
Living Beyond Brain Injury: A Resource Manual
A brain injury can have a dramatic effect on all areas of a person's life. This manual is designed to provide an understanding of some of the effects of a brain injury and how to manage them. It... (more)
Living with an Acquired Brain Injury: The Practical Life Skills Workbook
The Practical Life Skills Workbook is designed for people who have recovered well enough from brain injury to prepare for a return to independent living. Using a very accessible and easy to read... (more)
Neurobiology and Treatment of Traumatic Dissociation: Towards an Embodied Self
Encompassing the contributions of expert clinicians and researchers in the area of traumatic stress and dissociation, this volume is the first to integrate current neuroscience research regarding... (more)
The Neurobiology of Attachment-Focused Therapy: Enhancing Connection and Trust in the Treatment of Children and Adolescents
How can therapists and caregivers help maltreated children recover what they were born with: the potential to experience the safety, comfort, and joy of having trustworthy, loving adults in their... (more)
Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human
What is the mind? What is the experience of the self truly made of? How does the mind differ from the brain? Though the mind's contents-its emotions, thoughts, and memories-are often described, the... (more)
Finding Consciousness: The Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law of Severe Brain Damage
Modern medicine enables us to keep many people alive after they have suffered severe brain damage and show no reliable outward signs of consciousness. Many such patients are misdiagnosed as being in... (more)
Positive Neuroscience
How do we thrive in our behaviors and experiences? Positive neuroscience research illuminates the brain mechanisms that enable human flourishing. Supported by the John Templeton Foundation's Positive... (more)
Cognitive Neuroscience: A Very Short Introduction
Up to the 1960s, psychology was deeply under the influence of behaviourism, which focused on stimuli and responses, and regarded consideration of what may happen in the mind as unapproachable... (more)
Using Neuroscience in Trauma Therapy: Creative and Compassionate Counseling
Using Neuroscience in Trauma Therapy provides a basic overview of structure and function of the brain and nervous system, with special emphasis on changes that occur when the brain is exposed to... (more)
Mindbrain, Psychoanalytic Institutions, and Psychoanalysts: A New Metapsychology Consistent with Neuroscience
In this book, Antonio Imbasciati criticises the isolationism of traditional psychoanalytic associations, compared to those of other branches of psychology, and their suspicion of neuroscience. Today,... (more)
Neuropsychological Report Writing
All neuropsychologists need to know how to produce evidence-based reports. This book brings together experts to provide an in-depth guide to high-quality report writing in a range of contexts,... (more)
Neurobehavioural Disability and Social Handicap Following Traumatic Brain Injury: Second Edition
Neurobehavioural disability follows many forms of serious brain injury and is a major constraint on social independence. Rehabilitation services are often not organised in a way which addresses the... (more)
Effective Learning After Acquired Brain Injury: A Practical Guide to Support Adults with Neurological Conditions
Effective Learning After Acquired Brain Injury provides clear guidance on delivering productive educational programmes for adolescents and adults with acquired brain injury (ABI). Written for the... (more)