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This report, which inaugurates a new format for JAPA, is presented to honor the work of Howard Shevrin, who since 1962 has contributed to the psychiatric, neuroscientific, and psychoanalytic literature on the interface between clinical meaning and empirical science. Highlights of his work include his 1968 publication in Science, “Visual Evoked Response Correlates of Unconscious Mental Processes” (Shevrin and Fritzler 1968), his 1993 plenary address to the American Psychoanalytic Association, “Is Psychoanalysis One Science, Two Sciences, or No Science at All? A Discourse among Friendly Antagonists” (Shevrin 1995), and distinguished work on primary process, memory, conscious and unconscious processes, and the value and power of a comprehensive psychoanalytic theory. Shevrin's Dream Interpreters: A Psychoanalytic Novel in Verse (2003) moves us dramatically through the inner realms of his characters, giving his readers an introduction to the psychoanalytic experience.
Some psychoanalysts say that interdisciplinary work such as Shevrin's cannot address clinical meaning. Some cognitive scientists say that this kind of work cannot rise to the level of neuroscientific proof. The research reported here counters both statements.
Howard Shevrin and Michael Snodgrass, both of the University of Michigan (where Shevrin, a member of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, is director of the Ormond and Hazel Hunt Laboratory for the Study of Conscious and Unconscious Processes), led an animated