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One would be hard pressed to find another book so extensively filled with an up-to-date and extensive review of contemporary studies on the affective and neuroscience literature related to psychotherapy and psychoanalysis as this. This work will likely be a major reference source for those interested in understanding the brain-mind-body relationships, particularly in the two-person model, focused on the dissociative process, and the autonomic nervous system concomitants. Schore began in 1994 writing about the neurobiology of emotional development, and has continued with extensive publications in this area up to the present time. Here he continues to present extensively, and at times extremely repetitively, the latest series of works in the neuroscience world, particularly in the area of neuro-imaging studies, that bring many psychoanalytic concepts into line with observable and documentable changes in brain systems and metabolic activity. His is a developmental perspective grounded in attachment theory and the relational / inter-subjective schools. A number of background salient principles are present throughout this work: attachment theory, the right brain as the seat of the unconscious and locus of implicit communication, PTSD as a model of relational trauma and its effect on the right brain, the importance of affect modulation and affect dysregulation, and the connections of mind / brain with the body via the autonomic nervous system, and interpersonal relationship as the means by which mind develops, and emotional impingement and trauma are transmitted.