Leslie Brothers, M.D., is Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine.

• 1. A Failure to Connect ; 2. Building the Experience of Mind ; 3. The Brain's Social Specialization ; 4. The Editor Speaks ; 5. The Shift to a Social Perspective ; 6. Talking Faces ; 7. Worlds We Create ; 8. In Search of Emotion ; 9. Psychoanalytic Performances and Narratives ; 10. Exile's End

Sociologists interested in an introduction to the developing fields of neurosociology will find a real treat in this volume... At minimum, Leslie Brothers provides strong neurological data to support the idea of the self as an owner of conscious experience, as well as the idea of the social nature of the physical brain itself.