Introduction: How the Neurosciences Can Contribute to Psychoanalysis

Co-operation, not incorporation (Pugh, Chap. 1, this volume) integration, reciprocal contributions to the knowledge of the mind’s functions; mutual respect for the methodological and epistemological limitations of each discipline: these are the standards that govern my thoughts on interdisciplinarity and must be accepted for reciprocal enrichment between neurosciences and psychoanalysis to be possible.