As noted, here is a bibliography of some of my favorite books-mostly neuroscience-psychoanalytic volumes on severe mental illness are in different bibliography. Hope some members of our group find it helpful.

Brian

Neuroscience, Psychoanalysis and Related Subjects
Brian Koehler PhD
New York University

Aleman, A., Medford, N. & David, A.S. (Eds.) (2006). The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Emotion and Emotional Disorders. New York: Psychology Press.

Amador, X. F. & David, A. S. (Eds.) (1998). Insight and Psychosis. NY: Oxford University Press.

Andreasen, N.C. (2005). The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius. New York: Dana Press.

Andreasen, N.C. (Ed.) (2005). Research Advances in Genetics and Genomics: Implications for Psychiatry. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.

Austin, J. H. (2006). Zen-Brain Reflections: Reviewing Recent Developments in Meditation and States of Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Bentall, R.P. (2003). Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature. New York: Penguin Books.

Bilder, R.M. & LeFever, F.F. (Eds.) (1998). Neuroscience of the Mind on the Centennial of Freud’s Project for a Scientific Psychology. New York: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 843.

Bolton, D. & Hill, J. (1996). Mind, Meaning, and Mental Disorder: The Nature of Causal Explanation in Psychology and Psychiatry. NY: Oxford University Press.

Bownds, M. D. (1999). The Biology of Mind: Origins and Structures of Mind, Brain, and Consciousness. Bethesda, MD: Fitzgerald Science Press.

Bremner, J. (2002). Does Stress Damage the Brain? Understanding Trauma-related Disorders from a Mind-Body Perspective. NY: W. W. Norton & Company.

Brendel, D.H. (2006). Healing Psychiatry: Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Brockman, R. (1998). A Map of the Mind: Toward a Science of Psychotherapy. Madison, CT: Psychosocial Press.

Brown, J. (2002). The Self-Embodying Mind: Process, Brain Dynamics and the Conscious Present. NY: Barrytown/Station Hill.

Cacioppo, J.T. et al (Eds.) (2002). Foundations in Social Neuroscience. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press.

Cacioppo, J.T. & Berntson, G.C. (Eds.) (2004). Essays in Social Neuroscience. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Cacioppo, J.T., Visser, P.S. & Pickett, C.L. (Eds.) (2006). Social Neuroscience: People Thinking about Thinking People. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Carter, R. (1999). Mapping the Mind. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Carter, C.S. et al (Eds.) (2005). Attachment and Bonding: A New Synthesis. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Changeux, J.P. (2004). The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Charney, D.S. & Nestler, E.J. (Eds.) (2004). Neurobiology of Mental Illness: Second Edition. New York: Oxford University Press. 

Cloninger, C.R. (2004). Feeling Good: The Science of Well-Being. New York: Oxford University Press.

Cleeremans, A. (Ed.) (2003). The Unity of Consciousness: Binding, Integration and Dissociation.NY: Oxford University Press.

Coates, S. W., Rosenthal, J. L. & Schechter, D. S. (Eds.) (2003). September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.

Cohen, G.D. (2005). The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain.New York: Basic Books.

Conlan, R. (Ed.) (1999). States of Mind: New Discoveries About How Our Brains Make Us Who We Are. NY: John Wiley & Sons.

Corrigal, J. & Wilkinson, H. (Eds.) (2003). Revolutionary Connections: Psychotherapy and Neuroscience. NY: Karnac.

Cozolino, L. (2002). The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain. NY: W.W. Norton & Company.

Cozolino, L. (2006). The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Cytowic, R. (1996). The Neurological Side of Neuropsychology. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Damasio, A. (1999). The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. NY: Harcourt Brace & Company.

Damasio, A. (2003). Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain. New York: Harcourt, Inc.

Davidson, R.J. & Harrington, A. (Eds.) (2002). Visions of Compassion: Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature. New York:
Oxford University Press.

Davoine, F. & Gaudilliére (2004). History Beyond Trauma: Whereof One cannot Speak, Thereof One Cannot Stay Silent. NY: Other Press.

Dorman, D. (2003). Dante’s Cure: A Journey Out of Madness. NY: Other Press.

Edelman, g. & Tononi, G. (2000). A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination. NY: Basic Books.

Edelman, G.M. (2004). Wider than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Edelman, G.M. (2006). Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Ekins, R. (Ed.) (2002). Unconscious Mental Life and Reality. NY: Karnac.

Feinberg, T. (2001). Altered Egos: How the Brain Creates the Self. NY:Oxford University Press.

Fisher, S. & Greenber, R. P. (Eds.) (1989). The Limits of Biological Treatments for Psychological Distress: Comparisons with Psychotherapy and Placebo. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Fonagy, P. et al (2002). Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self. New York: Other Press.

Freeman, W. J. (2001). How Brains Make Up Their Minds. NY: Columbia University Press.

Friedman, M. J., Charney, D. S. & Deutch, A. Y. (Eds.) (1995). Neurobiological and Clinical Consequences of Stress: From Normal Adaptation to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. NY: Lippincott-Raven.

Frith, C. & Wolpert, D. (Eds.) (2003). The Neuroscience of Social Interaction: Decoding, Imitating, and Influencing the Actions of Others. NY: Oxford University Press.

Fu, C.H.Y. et al (Eds.) (2003). Neuroimaging in Psychiatry. New York: Martin Dunitz.

Fulford, B., Morris, K., Sadler, J. & Stanhellini, G. (Eds.) (2003). Nature and Narrative: An Introduction to the New Philosophy of Psychiatry. NY: Oxford University Press.

Gazzaniga, M. S. (Ed.) (2000). The New Cognitive Neurosciences: Second Edition. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Gerhardt, S. (2004). Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain. New York: Brunner-Routledge.

Ghaemi, S. N. (2003). The Concepts of Psychiatry: A Pluralistic Approach to the Mind and Mental Illness. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Goldberg, E. (2001). The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind. NY: Oxford University Press.

Goldberg, E. (2005). The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Brain Grows Older. New York: Gotham Books.

Goleman, D. (2006). Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships. New York: Bantam Books.

Gorman, J.M. (Ed.) (2004). Fear and Anxiety: The Benefits of Translational Research. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.

Grawe, K. (2007). Neuropsychotherapy: How the Neurosciences Inform Psychotherapy. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Gray, J.A. & McNaughton, N. ( 2003). The Neuropsychology of Anxiety: An Enquiry into the Functions of the Septo-Hippocampal Sysrtem: Second Edition. New York: Oxford University Press.

Green, V. (Ed.) (2003). Emotional Development in Psychoanalysis, Attachment Theory and Neuroscience: Creating Connections. NY:Brunner-Routledge.

Guttmann, G. & Schoz-Strasser, I. (Eds.) (1998). Freud and the Neurosciences: From Brain research to the Unconscious. Vienna: Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Häfner, H. (Ed.) (2002). Risk and Protective Factors in Schizophrenia: Towards a Conceptual Model of the Disease Process. Germany: Springer.

Heinrichs, R. W. (2001). In Search of Madness: Schizophrenia and Neuroscience. NY: Oxford University Press.

Hinshelwood, R.D. (2004). Suffering Insanity: Psychoanalytic Essays on Psychosis. New York: Brunner-Routledge.

Hines, M. (2004). Brain Gender. New York: Oxford University Press.

Hughes, J. C. et al. (Eds.) (2006). Dementia: Mind, Meaning, and the Person. NY: Oxford University Press.

Hundert, E. (1989). Philosophy, Psychiatry and Neuroscience: Three Approaches to the Mind-A Synthetic Analysis of the Varieties of Human Experience. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Hüther, G. (2006). The Compassionate Brain: How Empathy Creates Intelligence. Boston: Trumpeter.

Hyman, S.E., & Nestler, E. J. (1993). The Molecular Foundations of Psychiatry. Washington, D.C. American Psychiatric Press.

Jenkins, J. H.& Barrett, R. J. (Eds.) (2004). Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity: The Edge of Experience. UK: Cambridge University Press.

Jones, S.H. & Bentall, R.P. (Eds.) (2006). The Psychology of Bipolar Disorder: New Developments and Research Strategies. New York: Oxford University Press.

Kagan, J. (2006). An Argument for Mind. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Kandel, E.R. (2005). Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind. washington, DC: American Psychiatry Publishing, Inc.

Kandel, E.R. (2006). In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Kaplan-Solms, K. & Solms, M. (2000). Clinical Studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis: Introduction to a Depth Neuropsychology. New York: Karnac Books.

Kempermann, G. (2006). Adult Neurogenesis: Stem Cells and Neuronal Development in the Adult Brain. New York: Oxford University Press.

Kelsey, J.E., Newport, D.J. & Nemeroff, C.B. (2006). Principles of Psychopharmacology for Mental Health Professionals. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Liss.

Keshavan, M. S. & Murray, R. M. (Eds.) (1997). Neurodevelopment & Adult Psychopathology. UK: Cambridge University Press.

Kiesler, D. (1999). Beyond the Disease Model of Mental Disorders. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Kircher, T. & David, A. (Eds.) (2003).The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Klawans, H. (2000). Defending the Cavewoman: And Other Tales of Evolutionary Neurology. NY: W. W. Norton & Company.

Koch, C. (2004). The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach. Englewood, Colorado: Roberts and Company Publishers.

Koenig, H. G. & Cohen, H. J. (Eds.) (2002). The Link between Religion and Health: Psychoneuroimmunology and the Faith Factor. NY: Oxford University Press.

Kolb, B. (1995). Brain Plasticity and Behavior. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Lane, R. D. & Nadel, L. (Eds.) (2000). Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion.NY: Oxford University Press.

LeDoux, J. (2002). Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are. NY: Penguin

Levin, F. (1991). Mapping the Mind: The Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.

Levin, F. (2003). Psyche and Brain: The Biology of Talking Cures. Madison, CT: International Universities Press.

Levy, A. et al. (Eds.) (1998). New Frontiers in Stress Research: Modulation of Brain Function. Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers.

Lieberman, J.A., Stroup, T.S. & Perkins, D.O. (Eds.) ( 2006). Textbook of Schizophrenia. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.

Llinás, R. & Churchland, P. (Eds.) (1996). The Mind-Brain Continuum: Sensory Processes. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Llinás, R. R. (2001). I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

López-Ibor, J. J., Gaebel, W., Maj, M. & Sartorious, N. (Eds.) (2002). Psychiatry as Neuroscience. NY: John Wiley & Sons, LTD.

Mancia, M. (Ed.) (2006). Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience. New York: Springer.

Marcus, G. (2004). The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought. NY: Basic Books.

McDonald, C., Schulze, K., Murray, R.M. & Wright, P. (Eds.) (2004). Schizophrenia: Challenging the Orthodox. New York: Taylor & Francis.

McDonald, C., Schulze, K., Murray, R.M. & Tohen, M. (Eds.) (2005). Bipolar Disorder: The Upswing in Research and Treatment. New York: Taylor & Francis.

McEwen, B. (2002). The End of Stress as we Know it. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press.

McGuffin, P., Owen, M. J. & Gottesman, I. I. (Eds.) (2002). Psychiatric Genetics and Genomics. NY: Oxford University Press.

Modell, A. H. (2003). Imagination and the Meaningful Brain. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Moskowitz, M., Monk, C., Kaye,C. & Ellman, S. (Eds.) (1997). The Neurobiological and Developmental Basis for Psychotherapeutic Intervention. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc.

Neumann-Held, E.M. & Rehmann-Sutter, C. (Eds.).(2006). Genes in Development: Re-Reading the Molecular Paradigm.Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Newberg, A. (2006). Why We Believe What We Believe: Uncovering Our Biological Need for Meaning, Spirituality, and Truth. New York: Free Press.

Ogden, P., Minton, K. & Pain, C. (2006). Trauma and the Body: A
Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Otani, S. (Ed.) (2004). Prefrontal Cortex: From Synaptic Plasticity to
Cognition. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Pally, R. (2000). The Mind-Brain Relationship.London: Karnac.

Panksepp, J. (1998).Affective Neuroscience. Oxford University Press.

Phillips, L. (2006). Mental Illness and the Body: Beyond Diagnosis. NY:
Routledge.

Pliszka, S.R. (2003). Neuroscience for the Mental Health Clinician. New
York: The Guilford Press.

Ralph, R.O. & Corrigan, P.W. (Ed.) (2005). Recovery in Mental Illness:
Broadening Our Understanding of Wellness. Washington, DC: American
Psychological Association.

Read, J., Mosher, L. R. & Bentall, R. P. (Eds.) (2004). Models of Madness:
Psychological, Social and Biological Approaches to Schizophrenia. NY:
Brunner-Routledge.

Riecher-Rössler, A. & Steiner, M. (Eds.) (2005). Perinatal Stress, Mood
and Anxiety Disorders: From Bench to Bedside. New York: Karger.

Restak, R. (2003). The New Brain: How the Modern Age is Rewiring Your
Mind.Rodale.

Restak, R. (2006). The Nked Brain: How the Emerging Neurosociaety is
Changing How We Live, Work, and Love. New York : Harmony Books.

Rose, S. (Ed.) (1998). From Brains to Consciousness? Essays on the New
Sciences of the Mind. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Rose, S. (2005). The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of
Tomorrow’s Neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press.

Rutter, M. (2006). Genes and Behavior: Nature-Nurture Interplay Explained.
Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.

Sanguineti, V. (2007). The Rosetta Stone of the Human Mind: Three
Languages to Integrate Neurobiology and Psychology. New York: Springer.

Sapolsky, R.M. (2005). Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as
Animals. New York: Scribner.

Sarno, J.E. (2006). The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders.
New York: HarperCollins Publishers.

Schore, A. (2003).Affect Dysregulation & Disorders of the Self. NY: WW
Norton & Co.

Schore, A. (2003). Affect Regulation & the Repair of the Self. NY: WW
Norton & Co.

Schwartz, J. & Begley, S. (2002). The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity
and the Power of Mental Force. NY: HarperCollins.

Seeman, M.V. & Seeman, N. (2006). Psyche in the Lab: Celebrating Brain
Science in Canada. Cambridge, MA: Hogrefe.

Senior, C., Russell, T. & Gazzaniga, M.S. (Eds.) (2006). Methods in Mind.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Siegel, D. (1999). The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience. NY: The Guilford Press.

Siegel, G. J. et al (Eds.) (1999). Basic Neurochemistry: Molecular, Cellular and Medical Aspects-Sixth Edition. NY: Lippincott-Raven Publishers.

Smythies, J. (2002). The Dynamic Neuron: A Comprehensive Survey of the Neurochemical Basis of Synaptic Plasticity. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Solms, M. & Turnbull, O. (2002). The Brain and the Inner World: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subjective Experience. NY: Other Press.

Solomon, M.F. & Siegel, D.J. (Eds.) (2003). Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body, and Brain. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Steckler, T., Kalin, N.H. & Reul, M.H.M. (Eds.) (2005). Handbook of Stress and the Brain: Part 1: The Neurobiology of Stress. New York: Elsevier.

Steckler, T., Kalin, N.H. & Reul, M.H.M. (Eds.) (2005). Handbook of Stress and the Brain: Part 2: Stress: Integrative and Clinical Aspects. New York: Elsevier.

Stein, D. J. & Ludik, J. (Eds.) 1998). Neural Networks and Psychopathology: Connectionist Models in Practice and Research. UK: Cambridge University Press.

Stein, D.J., Kupfer, D.J. & Schatzberg, A.F. (Eds.) (2006). Textbook of Mood Disorders. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.

Stern, D. N.(2004). The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life. NY: W. W. Norton & Company.

Sternberg, R.J. & Weis, K. (Eds.) (2006). The New Psychology of Love. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Stoff, D.M. & Susman, E.J. (Eds.) (2005). Developmental Psychobiology of Aggression. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Swanson, L.W. (2003). Brain Architecture: Understanding the Basic Plan. New York: Oxford University Press.

Valenstein, E.S. (1998). Blaming the Brain: The Truth About Drugs and Mental Health. New York: The Free Press.

van Praag, H.M., de Kloet, R. & van Os, J. (2004). Stress, the Brain and Depression. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Vaughan, S.C. (1997). The Talking Cure: The Science Behind Psychotherapy. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.

Wexler, B.E. (2006). Brain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Wilkinson, M. (2006). Coming into Mind: The Mind-Brain Relationship: A Jungian Clinical Perspective. NY: Routledge.

Williamson, P. (2006). Mind, Brain, and Schizophrenia. New York: Oxford University Press.

Zorumski. C.F. & Rubin, E.H. (Eds.) (2005). Psychopathology in the Genome and Neuroscience Era. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.

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