Best Neuropsychology Books of 2025

The Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures is an authoritative and comprehensive book on EMDR therapy. This revised and expanded edition covers over 15 years of important advances in therapy and research, including additional applications for complex trauma, addictions, and post-disaster response. The book provides training materials, vivid vignettes, transcripts, and reproducible forms. It is recognized as a best practice for the treatment of PTSD by various health care associations and institutes around the world. Overall, this book is an essential resource for clinicians interested in EMDR therapy and its applications.

The Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD: A Comprehensive Manual is an essential read for clinicians working with patients who have PTSD. It provides a thorough understanding of cognitive processing therapy (CPT) and session-by-session guidelines for implementation, with sample dialogues and 40 reproducible client handouts. The book also discusses how to adapt the approach for specific populations, such as combat veterans, sexual assault survivors, and culturally diverse clients. The large-size format facilitates photocopying and day-to-day use. Overall, the book is an indispensable resource for any practitioner who wishes to utilize this powerful therapeutic approach.

Principles of Trauma Therapy: A Guide to Symptoms, Evaluation, and Treatment (DSM-5 Update) is an updated and practical resource for clinicians, private practitioners, and graduate students of public mental health. The book offers a creative synthesis of cognitive-behavioral, relational, affect regulation, mindfulness, and psychopharmacologic approaches to the treatment of acute and chronic posttraumatic states. Written by John N. Briere, PhD, and Catherine Scott, MD, the book is grounded in empirically-supported trauma treatment techniques and is adapted to the complexities of actual clinical practice. Overall, the book is a valuable tool for those working with patients who have experienced trauma.

The Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists is an excellent training manual designed for patients with a trauma-related dissociative disorder. It provides a comprehensive guide on how dissociation can interfere with essential emotional and life skills, and how to support communication and collaboration with dissociative parts of the personality. The book includes short educational pieces, homework sheets, and exercises that can be used in individual therapy or structured groups. The authors' decades of experience make this book practical, hands-on, and a valuable tool for both therapists and clients. It is the first of its kind, making it unique and highly recommended for anyone working with individuals with complex trauma.

The "EMDR Toolbox: Theory and Treatment of Complex PTSD and Dissociation" is a highly rated book that offers a comprehensive set of EMDR-based tools for therapists dealing with clients who have complex emotional issues. The second edition includes new discoveries and strategies to extend the therapeutic power of Adaptive Information Processing model-based methods. The book provides an overview of the principal issues in treating complex emotional problems and describes highly effective methodologies with a wide variety of clinical presentations. This EMDR book is bolstered by supporting theory and current research, making it a valuable resource for therapists.

Gain a deeper understanding of the inner workings of the human nervous system with this popular neuropsychology book from W. W. Norton & Company. The book presents the polyvagal theory in easy-to-understand language, enabling therapists to add a strong foundation of polyvagal principles to their work with clients. With the help of an autonomic mapping process and worksheets designed to track autonomic response patterns, the book enables you to engage the regulating capacities of the ventral vagal system. You can then use exercises to help clients reshape their autonomic nervous systems, build capacities for regulation, and create autonomic pathways of safety and connection. This book is essential reading for therapists who work with trauma and those who seek an easy and accessible way of understanding the significance that Polyvagal Theory has to clinical work.

The book "Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention" is a valuable resource for K-12 school practitioners and teachers. The third edition offers new chapters on working with students with ADHD and autism spectrum disorder, as well as guidance on developing individual education programs and multi-tiered systems of support. The book provides effective strategies for assessing students' strengths and weaknesses and promoting specific skills, such as organization, time management, sustained attention, and emotional control. The practical tools and reproducible forms included make it easy for teachers to implement the intervention strategies. Overall, this book is a must-have for anyone working with children and adolescents.

The Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests is a comprehensive guidebook for selecting the right test for specific clinical situations and making empirically supported test interpretations. The book includes over 85 test reviews of well-known neuropsychological tests and scales for adults, covering basic and advanced aspects of neuropsychological assessment. The authors are experienced neuropsychologists in independent practice and academia. This book is an essential resource for clinicians and researchers in neuropsychology and related fields.

This updated edition of Stuttering is a comprehensive textbook that covers the latest approaches to accurate assessment and treatment of stuttering. It explores a variety of practice settings, including evidence-based practice, counseling, IEPs, and assistive devices. This book has been thoroughly updated to address all current methodologies and includes new case studies and online videos that illustrate different levels and ways of treating stuttering. What makes this book unique is the new chapter on Learning, which explains how stuttering develops, covers the key elements of treatment at different ages, and details the effects of classical, operant, and avoidance conditioning. Overall, this book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the field of stuttering.

The foundational role of safety in our lives.Ever since publication of The Polyvagal Theory in 2011, demand for information about this innovative perspective has been constant. Here Stephen W. Porges brings together his most important writings since the publication of that seminal work. At its heart, polyvagal theory is about safety. It provides an understanding that feeling safe is dependent on autonomic states, and that our cognitive evaluations of risk in the environment, including identifying potentially dangerous relationships, play a secondary role to our visceral reactions to people and places.Our reaction to the continuing global pandemic supports one of the central concepts of polyvagal theory: that a desire to connect safely with others is our biological imperative. Indeed, life may be seen as an inherent quest for safety. These ideas, and more, are outlined in chapters on therapeutic presence, group psychotherapy, yoga and music therapy, autism, trauma, date rape, medical trauma, and COVID-19.