neuroscience

Zero Degrees of Empathy

The publishers say: “Simon Baron-Cohen, expert in autism and developmental psychopathology, has always wanted to isolate and understand the factors that cause people to treat others as if they were mere objects. In this book he proposes a radical shift,…
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The Interbrain: Embodied Connections Versus Common Knowledge

In The Interbrain: Embodied Connections Versus Common Knowledge, Digby Tantam (psychiatrist and professor of psychotherapy) presents what the publishers of this book describe as: “… his ground-breaking theory of the interbrain, the idea that human beings are endlessly connected by a…
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Social Empathy: The Art of Understanding Others

The publishers say of this book : “Our ability to understand others and help others understand us is essential to our individual and collective well-being. Yet there are many barriers that keep us from walking in the shoes of others: fear, skepticism,…
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Psychiatry’s cause for anxiety

Focus on people, not technology or the DSM, to treat mental illness … Dr. Tom Burns talks to Matthew Reisz in this interview-article from 2013 as posted on the Times Higher Education website: “A leading psychiatrist has criticised ‘ultra-scientific’ approaches to…
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The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are

Alan Jasanoff, a pioneering neuroscientist, argues that we are more than our brains. The publishers say : “To many, the brain is the seat of personal identity and autonomy. But the way we talk about the brain is often rooted more in mystical…
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Why Therapy Works: Using Our Minds to Change Our Brains

The publishers describe this book (2015) by Louis Cozolino as “the story of why psychotherapy actually works”. They continue: “That psychotherapy works is a basic assumption of anyone who sees a therapist. But why does it work? And why does…
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