In the mid-20th century, integrative efforts began concerning the brain and its social and humanistic functions. These efforts were led by Paul D. MacLean's integrative research and thought. As the century ended, however, such efforts were lost in the surge of new effort in brain and genome research. Nobel Prizes were awarded on biochemical and cellular findings relevant to psychiatry. Findings on these levels seemed to provide ultimate answers.By contrast, Cory, Gardner, and their contributors provide a more comprehensive view by extending MacLean's findings and integrative theory. Supported by new findings and extended by critical analyses of current work, the collection provides foundations for more integrative efforts that the editors and contributors believe will prevail increasingly in coming decades. Looked at from another vantage point, therapeutic, social, economic, and politial sciences have proceeded wtihout operating theories congruent with, or based on, brain functions. Across-species perspectives have been lacking. This collection redresses this problem and leads the way toward more comprehensive 21st century research on the one hand, and practical applications on the other. Multiple approaches extend from modeling efforts to across-species comparisons, to the basic science of psychiatry to theoretical explanations of political and economic systems. But most important, these essays abolish the Berlin wall that currently separates the brain from its social functions. A major guide for scholars, students, and researchers involved in the neurobehavioral sciences, for psychologists, psychiatrists, and others involved with human clinical sciences, and for social scientists concerned with the impact of the nervous system and its function.

IntroductionPerspectivesPribram and MacLean in Perspective by Karl H. PribramMacLean's Triune Brain Concept: In Praise and Appraisal by Gerald A. Cory Jr.Molecules, Body Plans, and the StriatumDeep Time and the Brain by C. U. M. SmithAdaptive Functions of the Corpus Striatum by Neil GreenbergThe Social Brain: Clinical Theory and Application--Depression and ManiaMacLean's Paradigm and Its Relevance for Psychiatry by Russell Gardner Jr.The Triune Brain, Escalation De-escalation Strategies by John S. PriceInvoluntary Defeat Strategy as Backdrop for Depression by Leon SlomanThe Evolved Basis of Mood and Thought Disorders by Daniel R. WilsonThe Social Brain: Clinical Theory and Applications: Autism, Forensics, AttentionEmpathy, Autism, and the Integration of the Triune Brain by James C. HarrisNeuroethology and Motiveless Homicide by Anneliese A. PontiusNeural and Functional Aspects of Pride and Shame by Glenn E. WeisfeldThe Triune Brain and Attention by Alan F. Mirsky and Connie C. DuncanInterpretations and ChallengesPhysics, Evolutionary Neuroscience, and Psychotherapy by James F. BrodyEvolutionary and Philosophical Issues by Seymour W. ItzkoffMacLean's Evolutionary Neuroethology: Environmental Pollution, Brain Chemistry, and Violent Crime by Roger D. Masters and Myron J. CoplanSocial Psychology and Social TheoryReification and Hegemony by Steven A. PetersonUpshifting and Downshifting the Triune Brain by Kent G. BaileyEvolutionary Neuroscience and the Invisible Hand of Economics by Gerald A. Cory Jr.Toward a Neural Network Theory of the Triune Brain by Daniel S. Levine and Nilendu G. JaniConclusion: Convergences and FrontiersIndex