Myron Hofer utilizes sociobiology, ethology, and recent advances in neurosciences to gain insight into human behavior. Although never openly hostile to psychoanalysis, he basically ignores its contributions. When he mentions Sigmund Freud, it is to point out how wrong he was about the psychic determinants of oedipal repression. Hofer prefers Piaget's sensorimotor explanations of cognition. He omits work of Anna Freud, Margaret Mahler, Robert Emde, Eleanor Galenson, etc., although child psychoanalysis and infant psychiatry have much to offer to a dialogue. He questions analytic theories of Spitz and