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In the prologue I wrote that because of advances in psychoanalysis, sociobiology, and evolution, there is a positioning in each of these areas of knowledge for a greater integration to enrich our understanding of human life. The six articles attest to this. Some of the theoretical formulations in psychoanalysis and cognitive psychology require alteration to the current state of knowledge (Cutler and Brakel, and Modell). The data needed to advance understanding of the development of subjectivity requires a plurality of theoretical and conceptual approaches (Hobson, Launer, Carlton and Shane).
Sexuality bridged by evolutionary principles remains essential to an understanding of body and mind in human and animal life (Launer).
Insights from the advances in anthropology, sociobiology and psychoanalysis reveal that similar theoretical and clinical models have explanatory power in their application to two very different fields of study, the brain and mind in primates and humans (Cortina and Liotti, and Carlton and Shane, and Hobson).
The explorations of the qualities of caring and cooperation that contribute to one’s humanity leaves much to understand, especially whether there is a distinct place for true caring and cooperation apart from reciprocal altruism; i.e., tit for tat.
Melvin Bornstein, M.D.
Issue Editor