Two of Louis Cozolino's earlier books for professionals, both published by Norton, The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain and The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain have become firm favourites of mine so I looked forward with eager anticipation to reading this book. Initially I found that I was engaging with a very different sort of book, a book perhaps written with the need of the interested and wishing to become well-informed public as well as the professional in mind. I found the style in which it was written engaging rather than academic but that nevertheless his arguments were securely grounded in findings from the fields of neural and social sciences, based on the premise that ‘the best overall environment for a healthy aging