Part I: The Brain and the Forest: A Neurocognitive Fairytale 1. Deer Trails Through the Woods: Finding a New Path Forward 2. This Book Is a Gift: Who Deer Trails is For 3. The Magical Classroom: The Superpowers of Observation and Description 4. Knocking Down Dams and Reuniting Rivers: Moving Stuck Energies 5. Your Brain is a Mansion: Neurotransmission Within Majestic Wired Architecture 6. A Wetland in the Forest: Neurotransmitters and Synaptic Junctions 7. The Brain of the Forest: Dendrites, Axons, and Synaptic Clefts 8.
Footsteps and Shoe Mending: Neuronal Pathways and Hebb's Rule 9. Neurocognitive Architecture: Some Basic Neuroanatomy 10. A Party in the Mansion: The Limbic System 11. Like a Shiny Silver Antenna: Empathy and the Anterior Precuneus 12. Connections Light Connections: Intuition, the Pituitary Gland, and the Prefrontal Cortex Part II: The Art of Holding On By Letting Go: Reenvisioning Anxiety and OCD 13. Life is Not Always a Party: The Brain, Anxiety, and OCD 14. Cutting Down Trees: Carving Pathways of Destruction 15. Uprooted Ground and Tangles of Thorns: Recognizing Chaos and Despair 16.
Tying Yourself to a Reality That Makes Sense to You, and Untangling the Knots 17. Old Haunts and Sour Fruits: Visualizing Anxiety and OCD 18. Like Birds With Open Wings: Holding On By Letting Go 19. Flyfishing in the Trout Stream: Letting Yourself Off the Hook 20. Going Through the Forest With a Garbage Bag: Clearing Old Ground 21. Taking a Good Bath and Starting Fresh: Practicing Self-Care Part III: Deer Trails Through the Woods: Finding a New Path Forward 22. When Compost Becomes New Soil: Neuroplasticity 23. I Have Visions Most People Don't Have: Reenvisioning the Relations Between Beauty and Trauma 24.
Webs of Connection and Protection: Spider Lilies and Arachnoid Mater 25. Networks and Lattices: Rose Arbors and Neuronal Arborization 26. Snowflakes are Miniature "Star Trees": Geological, Neuronal, and Stellar Dendrites 27. As Snow Falls in the Forest, Light Shines in the Mansion: Dendritic Connections in an Illuminated World 28. The Mirror Transforms: Living Between Memory and Epiphany Return to the Magical Classroom: Neuroaesthetics and the Art of Transformation 30. The Living Map: Deer Trails Through the Woods.