Books
A short reading list, with one sentence on what each book is for.
Principles of Neural Science
Eric Richard Kandel, James Harris Schwartz · McGraw Hill · 1981
Publisher pageThe standard textbook of neuroscience since 1981, and the reference behind most of what the other books here take for granted.
Attachment and right-hemisphere development brought together. Dense, and foundational.
The somatic marker hypothesis. Emotion as necessary to reason rather than opposed to it.
The seven primary emotional systems. The empirical ground under most neuropsychoanalysis.
Interpersonal neurobiology set out as a framework rather than a slogan.
Core consciousness built from the body's mapping of itself.
The founding text of neuropsychoanalysis, and still the best introduction to it.
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy
Louis Cozolino · W. W. Norton · 2002
What changes in the brain when therapy works, written for clinicians rather than researchers.
Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind
Eric Richard Kandel · American Psychiatric Publishing · 2005
Publisher pageKandel sets out how psychiatry and psychoanalysis could be put on a biological footing, collecting his two agenda-setting papers.
A Nobel laureate on how memory is made, and on his own route from Vienna to psychiatry to the biology of mind.
The autonomic account of safety and threat. Widely taken up, and still debated.
Consciousness located in the brainstem and in affect. Solms' most ambitious argument.
Bergin and Garfield's Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change
Michael Barkham, Wolfgang Lutz, Louis Georges Castonguay · John Wiley and Sons · 1971
Publisher pageThe reference work for outcome research, revised roughly every decade since 1971.
The evidence reviewed without partisanship. Shaped UK commissioning for two decades.
The contextual model. Common factors argued with the statistics attached.
Psychotherapy Relationships That Work
John Norcross, Michael Lambert · Oxford University Press · 2002
Publisher pageThe relationship treated as an evidence question rather than an article of faith.
The group as matrix. The foundation of group analysis in Britain.
Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon · Penguin Classics · 1952
Psychoanalysis turned on colonialism by a psychiatrist who had practised under it.
The argument that psychoanalysis describes patriarchy rather than prescribing it.
Janer Manila's novel of Marcos Rodriguez Pantoja, the boy sold to a goatherd and left alone in the Sierra Morena, drawn from the interviews behind his doctoral thesis.