Many are those discontent with psychoanalysis, including many who number themselves among its adherents. Some challenge its relative efficacy as a therapeutic practice. Others attack central aspects of its theoretical and explanatory structure, the metapsychology. The authors of this book, both psychoanalysts, would pursue “a true science of the mind” (p. 39) by subsuming aspects of psychoanalytic theory under the larger enterprise known as cognitive science. Though their argument is at times confusing and unevenly developed, as