Physiological & Neuro-psychology, Biopsychology

In this original study, Moshe Idel, an eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism and thought, and the cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist Shahar Arz...

Thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of a classic text, for courses on the psychology of learning, is more sophisticated, current, and ...

This volume brings together Freud's main contributions to the psychology of love. His illuminating discussions of the ways in which sexuality is al...

An exploration of why people all over the world love to engage in pain on purpose--from dominatrices, religious ascetics, and ultramarathoners to b...

Dr. Otto Kernberg, the internationally renowned psychoanalytic theorist and clinician, here examines the success and failure of sexual love in coup...

Robert Provine boldly goes where other scientists seldom tread—in search of hiccups, coughs, yawns, sneezes, and other lowly, undignified human beh...

In this wide-ranging book, one of the boldest thinkers in modern neuroscience confronts an ancient philosophical problem: can we know the world as ...

More than one hundred years after Freud began publishing some of his seminal theories, the concept of the unconscious still occupies a central posi...

Written by one of the pioneers in visual perception, Seeing provides an overview of the basics of sight, from the anatomy of the eye, to optical il...

The Meaning of Anxiety is as relevant and illuminating now as when it was first published in 1950. Challenging the idea that mental health means li...

A bold revision of the history of European art, told through the lens of neuroscience Ambitious and much anticipated, this book celebrates the valu...

A renowned neuroscientist explains how our brains and bodies give rise to knowledge, creativity, and mental experience Burgeoning advancements in b...

Princess Diana's death was a tragedy that provoked mourning across the globe; the death of a homeless person, more often than not, is met with apat...

Through a radical rereading of Aristotle, Seneca, Thomas Hobbes, Sarah Fielding, and Judith Butler, among others, Daniel Gross' "The Secret History...

Religions and mythologies from around the world teach that God or gods created humans. Atheist, humanist, and materialist critics, meanwhile, have ...

'A must read' Philippa Perry'Rich, revelatory and, in the best way, unsettling . . . the mixture of scientific curiosity, bookish thoughtfulness an...

If you are leaning backwards in your chair, are you more likely to think about the past than the future?  When you say that someone “leaves me cold...

Religion is often cast in opposition to science. Yet both are deeply rooted in the inner workings of the human brain. With the advent of the modern...

Religion is often cast in opposition to science. Yet both are deeply rooted in the inner workings of the human brain. With the advent of the modern...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

The authors postulate that aggression is always a consequence of frustration. They indicate manifestations of this sequence in almost every field o...

Karen Horney (1885-1952) is regarded by many as one of the most important psychoanalytic thinkers of the twentieth century. Her early work, in whic...

In the middle of the twentieth century, leading cultural critics and visionaries—Erik Erikson, Lionel Trilling, Herbert Marcuse, and many others—tu...

This is a book on how to gain control of one's emotions. It is a serious book that contains a theory of automatic processing it presents and its im...