The Unconscious: A bridge between psychoanalysis and cognitive neuroscience, edited by Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Simon Arnold, and Mark Solms, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2017, 219 pp.

The editors, both prominent research psychoanalysts have assembled papers delivered at a 2014 conference in Mexico City that brought together neuroscientists and psychoanalysts for an exchange of ideas about the two fields. Psychoanalysis as conceived by its founder, Sigmund Freud, was both a study of how the mind evolved and functioned and a therapy for those who suffered from some interference in comfortable and presumably healthy functioning. In adopting this belief, they are following the lead of Levine et al. ([4]) who believe that trauma in the pre-verbal period of life registers and is maintained in the body of the traumatized patient and can only be treated successfully if the analyst reconstructs for the patient the unknown (by the patient) traumatic event. [Extracted from the article]