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This paper is essentially a summary of the contents of the 1976 book by Pribram and Merton Gill dealing with their evaluation of Freud's Project for a Scientific Psychology. The author is interested in establishing a neuropsychiatry in which an intimate knowledge of brain function is relevant to the concerns of the practitioner in psychological and behavioral disorders. The bulk of the summary is concerned with providing neurological definitions for concepts of psychoanalytic theory, such as psychic energy, primary and secondary processes, affects, and defensive functions. Pribram views the Project as a "Rosetta Stone" that allows operational neuropsychological definitions of many of the concepts that have guided psychosocial psychiatry. How closely this goal is realized, however, is impossible to judge from this necessarily much abridged presentation.