This book familiarizes nonspecialists in neuroscience with the basic facts of how the brain "produces" one's subjective mental life. It shows them how old psychodynamic concepts are being forged into a new scientific framework for understanding subjective experience – in health and disease.

This work is an eagerly awaited account of this momentous and ongoing revolution, elaborated for the general reader by two pioneers of the field. The book takes the nonspecialist reader on a guided tour through the exciting new discoveries, pointing out along the way how old psychodynamic concepts are being forged into a new scientific framework for understanding subjective experience - in health and disease.