Now that the neurosciences are contributing so much to our understanding of brain function, it may be time to begin developing a brain-centered psychology. I mean a psychology on the same level of abstraction as ego psychology, or structural theory. In a sense this approach is an addendum to ego psychology, an attempt to make use of the neuroscience data to cover some of its weaker areas.

Psychoanalytic theory handles the notions of intrapsychic conflict, autonomous ego functions, and the general integration of the personality fairly well. But it has not adequately integrated the concept of affect, of the organic aspects of brain function, or some of the principles of learning and information processing. Consequently some of the symptom disorders, learning disabilities, and psychotic disorders have engendered theoretical problems when it was found that they could in part