Books

A short reading list, with one sentence on what each book is for.

Affective Neuroscience
Jaak PankseppOxford University Press1998
The seven primary emotional systems. The empirical ground under most neuropsychoanalysis.
The Developing Mind
Daniel J. SiegelGuilford Press1999
Interpersonal neurobiology set out as a framework rather than a slogan.
The Feeling of What Happens
Antonio DamasioVintage1999
Core consciousness built from the body's mapping of itself.
The Brain and the Inner World
Mark Solms, Oliver TurnbullRoutledge2002
The founding text of neuropsychoanalysis, and still the best introduction to it.
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy
Louis CozolinoW. W. Norton2002
What changes in the brain when therapy works, written for clinicians rather than researchers.
Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind
Eric R. KandelAmerican Psychiatric Publishing2005
Kandel sets out how psychiatry and psychoanalysis could be put on a biological footing, collecting his two agenda-setting papers.
In Search of Memory
Eric R. KandelW. W. Norton2006
A Nobel laureate on how memory is made, and on his own route from Vienna to psychiatry to the biology of mind.
The Polyvagal Theory
Stephen W. PorgesW. W. Norton2011
The autonomic account of safety and threat. Widely taken up, and still debated.
The Hidden Spring
Mark SolmsProfile Books2021
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 G. CastonguayJohn Wiley and Sons1971
The reference work for outcome research, revised roughly every decade since 1971.
What Works for Whom?
Anthony Roth, Peter FonagyGuilford Press1996
The evidence reviewed without partisanship. Shaped UK commissioning for two decades.
The Great Psychotherapy Debate
Bruce E. Wampold, Zac E. ImelRoutledge2001
The contextual model. Common factors argued with the statistics attached.
Psychotherapy Relationships That Work
John C. Norcross, Michael J. LambertOxford University Press2002
The relationship treated as an evidence question rather than an article of faith.
Group Analytic Psychotherapy
S. H. FoulkesRoutledge1975
The group as matrix. The foundation of group analysis in Britain.
Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz FanonPenguin Classics1952
Psychoanalysis turned on colonialism by a psychiatrist who had practised under it.
Psychoanalysis and Feminism
Juliet MitchellVerso1974
The argument that psychoanalysis describes patriarchy rather than prescribing it.