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Wilma Bucci is a major force in the attempt to bridge clinical psychoanalysis and academic psychology. Her 1997 monograph Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science: A Multiple Code Theory proposed a theory of the unconscious in terms of three levels of symbolization, reformulating psychoanalytic concepts in terms of imagery and cognitive schemata. A central concept in Bucci's theory is the emotion schema, which is based on early emotional experiences with primary caretakers. These idiosyncratic emotion schemata serve as templates for interpreting present-day experiences with others and producing emotional reactions. At the core of the theory is a model of three steps in which emotion schemata manifest, going from somatic changes such as arousal (nonsymbolic) to the evocation of images, memories, and entire stories (nonverbal symbolic), to finally a reflection on what these might mean (verbal). One way of understanding Bucci's work is that it reformulates core elements of psychoanalytic metapsychology such that it is compatible with modern psychology.
This volume gathers theoretical articles and chapters written between the publication of Bucci's milestone monograph and 2018. They are grouped into five theoretical chapters, maybe more, addressing researchers and six chapters that interpret clinical practice in terms of dual code theory. By reading the chapters in sequence, within each of the two sections, readers get a sense of the evolution of Wilma Bucci's theory. In the past 25 years, she has continued the highly ambitious program of reformulating psychoanalytic theory by couching it in terms of up-to-date theories from cognitive and emotion psychology. She confronts her thinking, for example, with Damasio's conception of emotions and discusses how dual code theory can be translated into Damasio's conceptual framework (Chapter 3) and how it can be made compatible with a variety of concepts from emotion theory and memory psychology. The concept of emotion schema is also