Books by Paul North

Safe and Sound.: A story about a little girl who overcomes fear.A delightful story of a young girl who, with the help of her parents, clinicians and pet cat, learns to overcome fear and embrace life.  Based on the acclaimed scientific work of Dr Stephen Porges, (arguably the world's leading neuroscientist), this book provides a model by which parents and teachers can help children navigate the challenges of life, in a helpful, scientifically valid and trauma informed way 

A delightful story of a young girl who, with the help of her parents, clinicians and pet cat, learns to overcome fear and embrace life.  Based on the acclaimed scientific work of Dr Stephen Porges, (arguably the world's leading neuroscientist), this book provides a model by which parents and teachers can help children navigate the challenges of life, in a helpful, scientifically valid and trauma informed way

The book offers the first systematic analysis of Kafka's only work of nonfiction, the so-called Zurau fragments, and develops his proposals there for a controversial solution to human suffering and the drive toward moral betterment.

Rejecting the current conflation of distraction with diversion, this book presents the first genealogy of the concept from Aristotle to Kafka, Heidegger, and Benjamin's early twentieth-century use of distraction to revolutionize the humanities.