Reading List

(Books discussed in the Neuro-Psychoanalysis Workshop)

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Neuro-Psychoanalysis: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Psychoanalysis and the Neurosciences.  London: Karnac.  www.neuro-psa.com

Damasio, A.  (1994).  Descartes' error: Emotion, reason and the human brain.  New York: G.P.Putnam.

Deacon, T.  (1997).  The symbolic species: The co-evolution of language and the brain.  New York: W.W. Norton.

Fonagy, P, Gergely, G., Jurist, E., and Target, M.   (2002).  Affect regulation, mentalization, and the development of the self New York: Other Press. 

Freeman, W.J. (1999). How brains make up their minds. London: Weidenfield & Nicolson. (available only through www.amazon.co.uk)

Lakoff, G. (1987). Women, fire, and dangerous things: What categories reveal about the mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

LeDoux, J.  (1996).  The emotional brain: The mysterious underpinnings of emotional life.  New York: Simon and Schuster. 

Kosslyn, S.M. and Koenig, O.  (1992).  Wet mind: The new cognitive neuroscience.  New York: The Free Press.

Modell, A.  (2003).  Imagination and the meaningful brain.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Schachter, D. L. (1996). Searching for Memory: The brain, the mind, and the past. New York: Basic Books.

Schore, A.  (2003).   Affect dysregulation and disorders of the self.  NY: W.W. Norton.

Solms, M. (1997). The neuropsychology of dreams: A clinico-anatomical study. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Thelen, E. & Smith, L.B. (1994). A dynamic systems approach to the development of cognition and action. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Tomasello, M.  (1999)  The cultural origins of human cognition.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

 

Further Readings of Interest

Mesulam, M-M. (2000). Principles of behavioral and cognitive neurology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Lakoff, G. & Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors we live by. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 


Revised: 02/28/04.