Neuroscience Books
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)
Touching a Nerve: Our Brains, Our Selves
What happens when we accept that everything we feel and think stems not from an immaterial spirit but from electrical and chemical activity in our brains? In this thought-provoking narrative—drawn... (more)
From Symptom to Synapse: A Neurocognitive Perspective on Clinical Psychology
The purpose of this book is to introduce clinical psychologists, other mental health practitioners, and researchers to the neurocognitive approach to assessing and treating psychiatric disorders. It... (more)
The Wisdom of Lived Experience: Views from Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience, Philosophy and Metaphysics
In our quest toward truth we often rely on the guidance and clarity of conscious thought, but in doing so we may bypass awareness of a more deeply informing resource, which is embodied in lived... (more)
Casebook of Neuropsychiatry
Casebook of Neuropsychiatry is comprised of 38 clinical cases based on real patient interactions that straddle the domains of neurology and psychiatry. While scientifically rigorous and grounded in... (more)
Management of Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a public health issue of worldwide proportions, affecting motorists, victims of interpersonal violence, athletes, military service members, and Veterans, among others.... (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)
Minding the Brain: A Guide to Philosophy and Neuroscience
This book explores how the relationship between philosophy and the brain can inform neuroscience, the mind-brain problem and debates about consciousness. Written in a lively style with extensive... (more)
Neuroscience for Counsellors: Practical Applications for Counsellors, Therapists and Mental Health Practitioners
This is an invaluable resource for counsellors and therapists looking to reinvigorate their practice and enhance their understanding of clients' needs. Each chapter focuses on different discoveries... (more)
Integrating Neuropsychological and Psychological Evaluations: Assessing and Helping the Whole Child
Integrating Neuropsychological and Psychological Assessments is a resource for neuropsychologists, psychologists, teachers and parents who wish to address both the neurologically- and... (more)
Working with Brain Injury: A Primer for Psychologists Working in Under-Resourced Settings
This book provides a hands-on resource for the development of essential skills and competencies in clinical neuropsychology. On a very practical level it addresses a question frequently asked by... (more)
Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception
Time rules our lives, but how much do we really understand it? In
Better Than One: How We Each Have Two Minds
Starting with research by Nobel laureate Roger Sperry into split-brain patients, this book sets out the evidence that there is a conscious mind in each hemisphere of the human brain. Two forms of... (more)
Ego Damage and Repair: Toward a Psychodynamic Neurology
As a psychiatric trainee at Harvard in the early 1960s, Dr Allan Hobson was taught commitment to psychoanalytic theory that was already suspect and is now almost entirely obsolete. Via a series of... (more)
The Soul in the Brain: The Cerebral Basis of Language Art and Belief
In this provocative study, the author tackles the interrelationship between brain function, language, art - especially music and poetry - and religion. By examining the breakdown of language in... (more)
Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental: Calming the Fear-driven Brain
Neurofeedback, a type of "brain training" that allows us to see and change the patterns of our brain, has existed for over 40 years with applications as wide-ranging as the treatment of epilepsy,... (more)
The Birth of Intersubjectivity: Psychodynamics, Neurobiology, and the Self
This book, the exciting collaboration of a developmental psychoanalyst at the forefront of functional magnetic resonance attachment research and a leading neurobiological researcher on mirror... (more)
The Interpersonal Neurobiology of Play: Brain-Building Interventions for Emotional Well-Being
Play unlocks human potential in all stages of life. This book uncovers the neurobiology behind play and how play therapy can help kids with life challenges, from divorcing parents to abuse to... (more)
The Feeling Brain: The Biology and Psychology of Emotions
Despite countless studies on the topic, we don't yet know the answer to the question What is an emotion? This book, based on a popular course taught by the authors, delves into different ways of... (more)
Sensory Perception
Sensory Perception: Mind and Matter brings together the neurosciences with psychology and philosophy thereby meeting the demand of an interdisciplinary discourse between those fields of interest in... (more)
Self-Identity after Brain Injury
An injury to the brain can affect virtually any aspect of functioning and, at the deepest level, can alter sense of self or the essential qualities that define who we are. In recent years, there has... (more)
Neurotherapy and Neurofeedback: Brain-Based Treatment for Psychological and Behavioral Problems
The fields of neurobiology and neuropsychology are growing rapidly, and neuroscientists now understand that the human brain has the capability to adapt and develop new living neurons by engaging new... (more)
Working with Traumatic Brain Injury in Schools: Transition, Assessment, and Intervention
Every day, children and adolescents worldwide return to the educational setting having sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The possible negative consequences of TBI range from mild to severe... (more)
Neuro-Disability and Psychotherapy - Volume 3, Issue 1: A Forum for the Practice and Development of Psychological Therapies for Neurological Conditions
Contents:
Editors’ Column by Gavin Farrell and Giles Yeates
Articles:
A Picture Tells a Lifetime of Words: Photography, Psychotherapy, and Brain Injury Rehabilitation...
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Neuro-Disability and Psychotherapy - Volume 2, Issues 1 & 2: A Forum for the Practice and Development of Psychological Therapies for Neurological Conditions
Special Double Issue: Accepting, Soothing, and Stilling Cluttered and Critical Minds in Neurological Conditions: Therapeutic Approaches Influenced by Eastern Traditions.
Providing emotional... (more)
Loving with the Brain in Mind: Neurobiology and Couple Therapy
Couple therapy can be transformed by understanding neurobiology: How are we wired for certain behaviours and how can we change? Helping clients to understand the way in which their brains work to... (more)
Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain
This book explains what the latest brain research into consciousness, sensory experience, memory and free will can tell us about the enduring philosophical and ethical questions about what the self... (more)
Minding the Social Brain
A generation of social neuroscientists uses acronyms to identify the structural neural networks revealed in the NIH Human Connectome Project. They know that a medial brain hub of nodal networks, the... (more)
From the Couch to the Lab: Trends in Psychodynamic Neuroscience
Can the psychodynamics of the mind be correlated with neurodynamic processes in the brain? The book revisits this important question - one that scientists and psychoanalysts have been asking for more... (more)
Children's Social Relatedness: An Embodied Brain Process
The subject of this book is the infant’s and young child’s social relatedness, including together the relationship between attachment and theory of body, speech-language, and theory-of-mind function,... (more)