The need for a "psychoanalytic psychology" in the cognitive science field

Cognitive science has incorporated seminal concepts of psychoanalysis witho ut acknowledging this influence. This article covers psychoanalytic ideas a lready incorporated-implicitly or explicitly-in modern cognitive psychology , as well as ideas whose inclusion would benefit the cognitive field. These include the emphasis on mental models, mind-body interaction, unconscious processes, dual processes of thought, and naturalistic research milieus. Th e article discusses reasons why the psychoanalytic roots of these ideas hav e not been acknowledged and shows how the theories of multiple coding and t he referential process provide a basis for bridging the psychoanalytic and cognitive science fields. Finally, it is argued that scientific psychology requires a subfield of psychoanalytic psychology that covers the integratio n of information processing functions, including somatic and emotional proc esses, in the context of an individual's overall goals.