| List of Illustrations | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Ch. 1 | The "Human Machine" and the Call to "Wholeness" | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Biology against Democracy and the "Gorilla-Machine" | 34 |
| Ch. 3 | World War I and the Search for God in the Nervous System | 72 |
| Ch. 4 | "A Peacefully Blossoming Tree": The Rational Enchantment of Gestalt Psychology | 103 |
| Ch. 5 | The Self-Actualizing Brain and the Biology of Existential Choice | 140 |
| Ch. 6 | Life Science, Nazi Wholeness, and the "Machine" in Germany's Midst | 175 |
| Conclusion | 207 |
| Notes | 213 |
| Bibliography | 275 |
| Index | 303 |