ABSTRACT
Clinical studies in neuro-psychoanalysis was a groundbreaking book on both accounts. First, it was the first major work to lay out a comprehensive correlation between brain function and psychoanalytic concepts. It thereby was an excellent primer for psychoanalytic clinicians who were just learning about the brain. Neuroscience and psychoanalysis are each vast universes in themselves; to bring them together is at times a daunting project. There is wide consensus in neuroscience that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is largely involved with voluntary regulation of behavior and attention. Cognitive neuroscience has documented how these areas are involved with emotional learning, internalizing social rules, judging affective meaning, and selecting behavior based on the likelihood of reward or punishment. The body of affective and cognitive neuroscience ultimately support a psychodynamic picture of a mind and brain in which emotion and cognition, memory and value, past and present, and self and other are all interrelated.
