Suggested Readings on Models and Theories
In order to gain a good working knowledge of any field it is important to have a solid understanding of the models and theories that shape and inform research and clinical practice. When multiple disciplines are involved, this task can appear extremely daunting! To help to facilitate the process through the distillation of key information, this reading list offers some of the key models and theories that serve as grounding in the fields of psychoanalysis, neuropsychology and neuroscience in general. These readings are subdivided into those that relate to affective and psychodynamic neuroscience, as well as to the treatment of various disorders.
Last updated: 15/11/2022
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Affective neuroscience Neuropsychoanalytic conceptualizations Treatment
Books
Damasio, A. (2012). Self Comes to Mind. New York: Vintage Books.
Panksepp, J. (1998). Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Panksepp, J., & Biven, L. (2012). The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Solms, M. (2021). The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness. London: Profile Books.
Journal articles and book chapters
Davis, K.L., & Panksepp, J. (2011). The brain’s emotional foundations of human personality and the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 35, 1946–1958. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2011.04.004
Flores Mosri, D. (2021). Clinical Application of Neuropsychoanalysis. Frontiers in Psychology 12 (718372). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.718372
Fotopoulou, K, von Mohr, M. and Krahé, Ch. (2022). Affective regulation through touch: homeostatic and allostatic mechanisms. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 43. 80-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.08.008
Friston, K.J., Wiese, W. and Hobson, J. A. (2020). Sentience and the origins of consciousness: From Cartesian duality to Markovian Monism. Entropy, 22. 516. https://doi.org/10.3390/e22050516
Panksepp, J., Burgdorf, J., Turner, C., & Gordon, N. (2003). Modeling ADHD-type arousal with unilateral frontal cortex damage in rats and beneficial effects of play therapy. Brain & Cognition, 52, 97–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0278-2626(03)00013-7
Roffman, J.L., & Gerber, A.J. (2009). Neural Models of Psychodynamic Concepts and Treatments: Implications for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. In R.A. Levy, J.S. Ablon (Eds.), Handbook of Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Bridging the gap between science and practice (pp. 305-338). New York: Humana Press.
Wright, J., & Panksepp, J. (2012). An evolutionary framework to understand foraging, wanting, and desire: The neuropsychology of the SEEKING system. Neuropsychoanalysis, 14, 5–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2012.10773683
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Neuropsychoanalytic conceptualizations
Carhart-Harris, R., & Friston, K. (2010). The default mode, ego functions and free energy: A neurobiological account of Freudian ideas. Brain, 133, 1265–1283. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093%2Fbrain%2Fawq010
Dall’Aglio, J. (2022). Neuropsychoanalysis: What, How, and Why. In J.Turtz and G. Gargiulo (Ed.), Enriching Psychoanalysis, integrating concepts from contemporary science and philosophy (Chapter 6, pp 119-146). Routledge.
Feinberg, T.E. (2010). Neuropathologies of the self: A general theory. Neuropsychoanalysis, 12, 133-158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2010.10773637
Glasnović, A., Babić, G., Demarin, V. (Ed). (2020). Neuropsychoanalysis-Gluing the Bits Together Again. Mind and Brain, Springer.
Northoff, G. & Scalabrini, A. (2021). “Project for a Spatiotemporal Neuroscience” – Brain and psyche share their topography and dynamic. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:717402.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.717402
Panksepp, J., & Solms, M. (2012) What is neuropsychoanalysis? Clinically relevant studies of the minded brain. Trends in Cognitive Science, 16, 6-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2011.11.005
Solms, M. (2021). Revision of drive theory. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 69 (6), 1033-1091. https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651211057041
Solms, M. (2019). The hard problem of consciousness and the free energy principle. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02714
Solms, M. (2014). The primary concern of neuropsychoanalysis. Neuropsychoanalysis, 16, 49-51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2014.903031
Solms, M. (2013). The Conscious Id. Neuropsychoanalysis, 15, 5-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2013.10773711
Solms, M., & Panksepp, J. (2012). The id knows more than the ego admits. Brain Sciences, 2, 147–175. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci2020147
Solms, M., & Panksepp, J. (2010). Why depression feels bad. In E. Perry, D. Collerton, F. LeBeau & H. Ashton (Eds.), New Horizons in the Neuroscience of Consciousness (pp. 169-179). John Benjamins.
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Solms, M., Pantelis, E., & Panksepp, J. (2012). Neuropsychoanalytic notes on addiction. In: G. Ellis, D. Stein, E. Meintjies & K. Thomas (Eds.), Substance Use and Abuse in South Africa (pp. 175-184). Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press.
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Solms, M., & Turnbull, O.H. (2011). What Is Neuropsychoanalysis? Neuropsychoanalysis, 13, 133-145. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2011.10773670
Thibierge. S., & Morin, C. (2013). Identification, recognition and misidentification syndromes: a psychoanalytical perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 835. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00835
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Coetzer, R. (2007). Psychotherapy following traumatic brain injury: Integrating theory and practice. The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 22, 39 – 47. https://journals.lww.com/headtraumarehab/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2007&issue=01000&article=00005&type=abstract
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