Overlapping themes in psychology and law offer endless insights and opportunities for study, but real-life application in the courtroom has been limited since the popular psychology boom of the 1960s and ’70s.

Leading the charge to revisit those connections, UConn law professor Anne C. Dailey, author of the award-winning book “Law and the Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Perspective,” is picking up where leaders in the legal and social sciences left off.