"Psychodynamics and Cognition" outlines ways that methods and ideas from cognitive and information science can be used to reformulate psychoanalytic concepts and to test them outside the psychoanalytic situation. Based on a 1984 conference sponsored by the Health Program of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, this book presents a series of papers by distinguished scholars in psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics.

Mardi J. Horowitz is professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. His books include States of Mind, Stress Response Syndromes, Personality Styles and Brief Psychotherapy, Image Formation and Cognition, and Image Formation and Psychotherapy.