Explores the ways in neuroscientific research bears on the relation between psyche and the body.

Elizabeth A. Wilson is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney in Australia. She is the author of Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Somatic Compliance 1
1. Freud, Prozac, and Melancholic Neurology 15
2. The Brain in the Gut 31
3. Hypothalamic Preference: LeVay’s Study of Sexual Orientation 49
4. Trembling, Blushing: Darwin’s Nervous System 63
5. Emotional Lizards: Evolution and the Reptilian Brain 79
Notes 97
References 113
Index 123