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January 20, 2008
Transformation
Diane Lia shared the information she has learned from studying how the brain develops from infancy through adulthood. She talked about how we can and do create our own reality, and how difficult it can be to change what and how we think.
Books on Neurobiology
The Healing Brain- Edited Robert Ornstein
Awakening Intuition- Mona Lisa Schultz
Phantoms in the Brain- VS Ramaschandran
Inside the Brain- Ronald Kotulak
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life-Daniel Amen
A User’s Guide to the Brain- Ratey
Multiple Intelligence- Howard Gardner
A Symphony in the Brain- Jim Robbins
The Emotional Intelligence- Daniel Goleman
Emotional Brain- Joseph Ledoux
Molecules of Emotions- Candance Pert
The Developing Mind- Daniel Siegel
A General Theory of Love- Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon
Synaptic Self- Joseph Le Doux
The Feeling of What Happens- Antonio Damasio
Where God Lives in the Brain- Carol Albright and James Ashbrook
How the Mind Works- Steve Pinker
The Biology of Violence- Debra Neihoff
The New Feminine Brain- Mona Lisa Schulz
Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior- John Brick and Carlton Erickson
The Craving Brain- Ronald Rudin
The Biology of the Brain- From Neurons to Network- Rodolfo R Llinas
Train Your Mind Change Your Brain- Sharon Begley
Psychology Books
Embracing Ourselves – Hal and Sidra Stone
Goddess in Every Woman- Dr Bolen
The Dance of Intimacy- Harriet Lerner
The Dance of Anger- Harriet Lerner
Learning to Love Yourself- Gay Hendricks
Beyond Codependency- Melody Beattie
Women Who Love Too Much- Robin Norwood
You Just Don’t Understand- Deborah Tannen
Meeting the Shadow- Edited by Connie Zweig & Jeremiah Abrams
Trauma and Recovery- Judith Herman
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder- Aphrodite Matsakis
Body/Mind
Meditation as Medicine- Dharma Singh Khalsa
You Can Heal Your Life- Lousie Hay
The Biology of Belief- Bruce Lipton
Articles
Anda, Robert F, Felliti, Vincent J, Bremmer J. Douglas, Walker, John D,
Whitfield, Charles, Perry Bruce D., Dube Shanta R., Giles, Wayne H. “The
enduring effects of abuse and related adverse experiences in childhood” European
Archieves of Psychitry and Clinical Neuroscience (2006) 256:174-186.
Anda, Robert F., Whitfield, Charles L., Felitti, Vincent J., Chapman, Daniel, Edwards, Valerie J., Dube, Shanta R., and Willaimson David F., “Adverse Childhood Experiences, Alcoholic Parents, and Later Risk of Alcoholism and Depression” Psychiatric Services August 2002 Vol. 53 No. 8.
Adverse Childhood Experiences -- Study is one of the largest investigations ever conducted on the links between childhood maltreatment and later-life health and well-being.
Shore, Allan N. “Dysregulation of the right brain: a fundamental mechanism of traumatic attachment and the psychopathogenesis of posttraumatic stress disorder Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 2002; 36:9-30
Shore, Allan N. “The experience-dependent maturation of a regulatory system in the orbital prefrontal cortex and the origin of developmental psychopathology” Development and Psychopathology8 (1996) 59-87
Siegel, Daniel J., “Toward an interpersonal neurobiology of the developing mind: attachment relationships, ‘mindsight’, and neural integration” Infant Mental Health Journal, Vol. 22(1-2), 67-94 (2001)
Van Der Kolk, Bessel, “Beyond the talking cure: somatic experience and subcortical imprints in the treatment of trauma”. EMDR, Promises of a Paradigm Shift APA Press 2002, New York
Websites About The Brain
The Dana Foundation (Newsletter on
the brain)
Brain
Awareness 2008 -- lecture series
Interpersonal_Neurobiology
BrainSource
Websites on Trauma
Trauma Information Pages
About Seeking Safety
Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute
Respectfully submitted,
Diane Lia