Books
A short reading list, with one sentence on what each book is for.
Jaak Panksepp · Oxford University Press · 1998
The seven primary emotional systems. The empirical ground under most neuropsychoanalysis.
Daniel J. Siegel · Guilford Press · 1999
Interpersonal neurobiology set out as a framework rather than a slogan.
Antonio Damasio · Vintage · 1999
Core consciousness built from the body's mapping of itself.
Mark Solms, Oliver Turnbull · Routledge · 2002
The founding text of neuropsychoanalysis, and still the best introduction to it.
Louis Cozolino · W. W. Norton · 2002
What changes in the brain when therapy works, written for clinicians rather than researchers.
Eric R. Kandel · American Psychiatric Publishing · 2005
Kandel sets out how psychiatry and psychoanalysis could be put on a biological footing, collecting his two agenda-setting papers.
Eric R. Kandel · W. W. Norton · 2006
A Nobel laureate on how memory is made, and on his own route from Vienna to psychiatry to the biology of mind.
Stephen W. Porges · W. W. Norton · 2011
The autonomic account of safety and threat. Widely taken up, and still debated.
Mark Solms · Profile Books · 2021
Consciousness located in the brainstem and in affect. Solms' most ambitious argument.
Michael Barkham, Wolfgang Lutz, Louis G. Castonguay · John Wiley and Sons · 1971
The reference work for outcome research, revised roughly every decade since 1971.