About the Author

Mardi J. Horowitz is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco and Director of the Center on Stress and Personality at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. He is the author of thirteen books, including The Psychodynamics of Cognition.

Reviews

Combines a clinician's shrewd understanding of the realities of psychotherapy and a scholar's pleasure in tracing the intricacies of psychoanalytic theories of explanation. In his conversational and witty style, the philosophy of social science comes to life." -Donald J. Cohen, M.D., Director, Yale Child Study Center, Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology, Yale University