my mind on books

This is the concluding part of a list I started a few days ago, of new & forthcoming books in the neurosciences, including neuroscience applied to fields such as religion, ethics or psychotherapy. A cumulative list will be placed in the sidebar.

Neuropsychotherapy: How the Neurosciences Inform Effective Psychotherapy by Klaus Grawe (Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007).

Neuroscience, Fourth Edition by Dale Purves (Sunderland, Mass.: Sinauer Associates, 2007). textbook

The Neuroscience of Psychological Therapies by Rowland W Folensbee (Cambridge [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Neuroscience of Rule-Guided Behavior ed. by Silvia A Bunge; Jonathan D Wallis (New York : Oxford University Press, 2007) forthcoming Aug 29

New Frontier of Religion and Science: Religious Experience, Neuroscience, and the Transcendent by John Hick (New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

On Willing Selves: Neoliberal Politics and the Challenge of Neuroscience ed. by Sabine Maasen; Barbara Sutter (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) forthcoming Oct 2

Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer (Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2007) forthcoming Nov 1 (author’s blog, “The Frontal Cortex”)

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This is the beginning of a cumulative list to be placed in the sidebar, of books on the neurosciences published in 2007 or forthcoming; some actually appeared in 2006 but have copyright dates of 2007.

Billy’s Halo by Ruth McKernan (London: Black Swan, 2007). [hardcover published in 2006, paperback Jan 07] A neuroscientist’s memoir of her father’s illness and death.

Bioethics and the Brain by Walter Glannon (New York : Oxford University Press, 2007).

Cognitive Psychology: Mind and Brain Edward E Smith; Stephen Michael Kosslyn (Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2007) textbook integrates neuroscience into cognitive psychology

Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge by B Alan Wallace (New York : Columbia University Press, 2007) publisher’s page with links to interviews

Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science: Essential Readings in Neuroethics ed. by Walter Glannon (New York : Dana Press, 2007)

Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience: The Geometry of Excitability and Bursting by Eugene M Izhikevich (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2007). http://vesicle.nsi.edu/users/izhikevich/publications/dsn/index.htm

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One of the researchers featured in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, Gerd Gigerenzer, has a new book – Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious. Gigerenzer is director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. (author’s website)

More new books:

The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language by Christine Kenneally

The Open-Focus Brain: Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body by Les Fehmi and Jim Robbins (forthcoming Aug 28) (some publications available online)

Mindful Universe: Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer (The Frontiers Collection) by Henry P. Stapp

Evocative Objects: Things We Think With by Sherry Turkle

Creative Explorations: New Approaches to Identities and Audiences by David Gauntlett is based on a project in which people used Lego pieces to create metaphorical models of their identity (sounds something like “sand tray therapy“).

The author has posted an extract from the conclusion; here is part:

“I was struck by ‘the will to coherence’ – the desire to assemble a solid and unified view of self-identity. It was also possible to see participants asserting their own distinctiveness within the context of an increasingly globalised and mainstream fashion-led culture. The role of the media emerged as the provider of stories – ethical resources which people use to orient themselves towards aspirations. We saw that the sense of a journey was common, with each person as the hero of their own story, often moving away from historical ties towards greater stability, fulfilment, and engagement with the world. … these goals were not about possessions gained, but about social connections, inner happiness, and a life well lived.”

More on the project at the ArtLab website… and the author’s website….

One I missed earlier: Why Think? The Evolution of the Rational Mind by Ronald de Sousa (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007)