FRONT COVER -- The Imprinted Brain How Genes Set the Balance Between Autism and Psychosis -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Autism and Its Compensations -- Autism, schizophrenia, and Asperger's syndrome -- Savants and savantism -- People people and things people -- Mechanistic or systemizing? -- Chapter 2 Deficits in Mind -- Not seeing the wood for the trees -- Mind-blindness -- Mentalism -- From attention to intention -- Chapter 3 From Gaze to Grandeur -- Delusions of gaze -- The why and how of passion and persecution -- Conspiracies and magic -- The sense of self in ASD and psychosis -- Chapter 4 Cancers of the Mind -- Memory, self-deception, and candour -- Hyper-mentalism -- Magic and religion -- Mental metastasis -- Chapter 5 The Battle of the Sexes in the Brain -- Strange inheritance -- The extreme male brain -- Genomic imprinting -- Imprinting and the brain -- Mother's baby-father's? Maybe! -- Chapter 6 Sex and Psychosis -- The X in psychosis -- Psychosis, poverty, and pathogens -- Handedness, belief, and the brain -- Paranoia and homosexuality -- ASD, PSD, and normality -- Chapter 7 Beyond the Balanced Brain -- The cognitive configuration of genius -- The genius of detective fiction -- Psychotic savants -- The case of Freud -- Therapeutic implications of the imprinted brain theory -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- back cover.