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Influential books

The books that shaped how I think about children, bodies and development.

Some of these are textbooks. Some of them are not about children at all. All of them changed something about how I practise.

Where a book is still in print, there's a link to find it. A couple are out of print and worth hunting for secondhand.

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Sensory Integration and Learning Disorders

A. Jean Ayres
The 1972 original. Out of print, secondhand only.

Sensory Integration and the Child

A. Jean Ayres
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Sensory Integration: Theory and Practice

Anita Bundy & Shelly Lane
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Motor Skills Acquisition in the First Year

Lois Bly
Hard to find new. Worth the hunt secondhand.

Separation: Anxiety and Anger

John Bowlby
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The Whole-Brain Child

Daniel Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
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The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy

Deb Dana
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog

Bruce Perry
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How Emotions Are Made

Lisa Feldman Barrett
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Wired to Feel: Autism as a Condition of Sensory Surplus

Sarah Bergenfield
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An Immense World

Ed Yong
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The Art of Learning

Josh Waitzkin
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Other books I've loved

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl
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Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

Sadhguru
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