The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry
The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Anthony David, Institute of Psychiatry, London
An international team focuses on current models of self-consciousness from neurosciences and psychiatry in this collection of essays. These are set against introductory essays describing philosophical, historical and psychological approaches. Neuroscience has recently contributed important insights to the concept and construction of the self from conditions, such as schizophrenia, in which the self becomes disordered and can be studied against healthy controls through experiment, building cognitive models of how the mind works, and imaging brain states.
- First book to encompass an extensive review of current scientific and clinical approaches to consciousness and self-consciousness
- Focuses on pathological states of self-consciousness, such as in schizophrenia and disordered mental states
- Written by an international team of leading experts from the fields of neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology and the philosophy of science
Reviews & endorsements
"...a book that can be recommended particularly to those interested in the field of self and self-consciousness from a biologically oriented psychiatric viewpoint. The scientific merit of the book, however, clearly goes beyond psychiatry, and it can therefore be recommended to all those scientists and clinicians who are affiliated with research of the self and self-consciousness." Gereon R. Fink, University Hospital Aachen, Brain
"This is a fascinating and highly recommended book." ACNR, Rob Forsyth, Newcastle
"This is a thought provoking book. Kircher and David are to be congratulated on bringing together a set of seminal contributions on which further conceptual and scientific advances in udnerstanding the phenomena of psychosis and their relationship to the human capacity of language can be based." J Neural Neurosurger and Psychiatry, JNNP, T J Crow
Product details
September 2003Paperback
9780521533508
498 pages
246 × 173 × 28 mm
0.97kg
6 b/w illus. 4 tables
Available
Table of Contents
- Introduction: the self and neuroscience Tilo Kircher and Anthony David
- Part A. Conceptual Background:
- 1. The self and psychiatry German Berrios and Ivana S. Marková
- 2. The self in philosophy, neuroscience and psychiatry Georg Northoff and Alexander Heinzel
- 3. Phenomenology of self Dan Zahavi
- 4. Language and self-consciousness Maxim Stamenov
- Part B. Cognitive and Neurosciences:
- 5. Multiplicity of consciousness and the emergence of self Gerard O'Brien and Jon Opie
- 6. Asynchrony
- implicational meaning and the experience of self in schizophrenia Philip Barnard
- 7. Self-awareness, social intelligence and schizophrenia Gordon Gallup, James Anderson and Steven Platek
- 8. The neural correlates of self-awareness and self-recognition Julian Paul Keenan, Mark Wheeler and Michael Ewers
- 9. Autonoëtic consciousness Hans Markovitsch
- 10. The neural nature of the core self Jaak Panksepp
- Part C. Disturbances of the Self: The Case of Schizophrenia: i. Phenomenology:
- 11. Self and schizophrenia: a neuropsychological perspective Josef Parnas
- 12. Schizophrenia, self-disturbance and the intentional arc Louis Sass
- 13. The self-experience of schizophrenics Christian Scharfetter
- ii. Social Psychology:
- 14. The paranoid self Richard Bentall
- 15. Schizophrenia and the narrative self James Phillips
- 16. Self-narrative in schizophrenia Shaun Gallagher
- iii. Clinical Neuroscience:
- 17. Schizophrenia as disturbance of the self construct Kai Vogeley
- 18. Action recognition in normal and schizophrenic subjects Marc Jeannerod et al
- 19. Disorders of self-monitoring and the symptoms of schizophrenia Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Chris Frith
- 20. Hearing voices or hearing the self in disguise? Cynthia Fu and Philip McGuire
- 21. The cognitive neuroscience of agency in schizophrenia Henrik Walter and Manfred Spitzer
- 22. Self-consciousness: an integrative approach from philosophy, psychopathology and the neurosciences Tilo Kircher and Anthony David
- Index.
