Interpersonal Neurobiology, the Mind, and Health in Its Flourishing and Compromised States

This chapter provides a brief overview introducing an interdisciplinary approach that combines the major fields of science into one framework in order to understand the human mind and well-being. By utilizing a process of seeking the universal findings emerging from independent pursuits of knowledge, what E.O. Wilson calls consilience (Wilson, Consilience: the unity of knowledge, New York, 1998), the “consilient” field of Interpersonal Neurobiology seeks to understand the nature of reality by drawing upon the independent discoveries from fields such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology (including the fields of genetics, neuroscience, and medicine), psychology, linguistics, sociology, and anthropology.