Neuroscience Books
Sex in the Brain: A Neuropsychosexual Approach to Love and Intimacy
An overview of what happens in the brain during the development of romantic and sexual relationships, from the intense emotions at the start on to kissing, touch, arousal, orgasm, commitment,... (more)
The Brain has a Mind of its Own: Attachment, Neurobiology and the New Science of Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a practice in search of a theory. Recent advances in relational neuroscience and attachment research now offer convincing avenues for understanding how the 'talking cure' helps... (more)
Sex, Death, and the Superego: Updating Psychoanalytic Experience and Developments in Neuroscience
This second edition of Ronald Britton's personal reappraisal of psychoanalytic theories is based on further clinical experience, further study of current neuroscience and continued reflection on the... (more)
Unlocking the Nature of Human Aggression: A Psychoanalytic and Neuroscientific Approach
Unlocking the Nature of Human Aggression is a neuropsychoanalytic and scientific exploration of aggression and argues for its central role in psychopathology and the genesis of individual symptoms,... (more)
Borderline Bodies: Affect Regulation Therapy for Personality Disorders
A bold look at the body as a source of contention for those who suffer from personality disorders. People with personality disorders often attack their own bodies through eating disorders and other... (more)
Anxiety and Mood Disorders Following Traumatic Brain Injury: Clinical Assessment and Psychotherapy
While there are many excellent texts addressing cognitive impairment and behavioural difficulties and on rehabilitation associated with traumatic brain injury, few textbooks specifically address the... (more)
The Development of the Unconscious Mind
This book traces the evolution of the concept of the unconscious from an intangible, metapsychological abstraction to a psychoneurobiological function of a tangible brain. An integration of current... (more)
Narrative Approaches to Brain Injury
This book brings together narrative approaches and brain injury rehabilitation, in a manner that fosters an understanding of the natural fit between the two. We live our lives by narratives and... (more)
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Healing the Social Brain: Fourth Edition
A new edition of the classic text that links neuroscience and human behaviour in a therapeutic context.
This ground-breaking book explores the revolution in psychotherapy that brought an... (more)
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
How does the mind connect to the body? Why does it feel like something to be us? For one of the boldest thinkers in neuroscience, solving this puzzle has been a lifetime's quest. Now at last, the man... (more)
The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are: Third Edition
This highly influential work--now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major advances in the field--gives clinicians, educators, and students a new understanding of what the mind is,... (more)
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World - New Edition
A new edition of the bestselling classic - published with a special introduction to mark its 10th anniversary. This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain - the... (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)
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)
Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self
This is the second volume in Allan Schore's comprehensive treatment of affect, regulation, and human development and applies his developmental theory to critical areas of emotional development,... (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 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 Science of the Art of Psychotherapy
For decades Allan Schore has been a leader in developing an overarching model of people’s social and emotional development, integrating work from psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, attachment... (more)
Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons
Gardner's brilliant conception of individual competence is changing the face of education today. In the ten years since the publication of his seminal "Frames of Mind", thousands of educators,... (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)
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)
Explorations Between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: At the Edge of Mind and Brain
Explorations Between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience brings together the life's work of David Olds, pioneering psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, philosopher, and key figure in... (more)