The self in neuroscience and psychiatry / edited by Tilo Kircher and Anthony David.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kircher, Tilo, 1965- editor.

David, Anthony S., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self.

Psychiatry.

Neurosciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 484 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

The Self in Neuroscience & Psychiatry

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years the clinical and cognitive sciences and neuroscience have contributed important insights to understanding the self. The neuroscientific study of the self and self-consciousness is in its infancy in terms of established models, available data and even vocabulary. However, there are neuropsychiatric conditions, such as schizophrenia, in which the self becomes disordered and this aspect can be studied against healthy controls through experiment, building cognitive models of how the mind works, and imaging brain states. In this 2003 book, the first to address the scientific contribution to an understanding of the self, an eminent, international team focuses on current models of self-consciousness from the neurosciences and psychiatry. These are set against introductory essays describing the philosophical, historical and psychological approaches, making this a uniquely inclusive overview. It will appeal to a wide audience of scientists, clinicians and scholars concerned with the phenomenology and psychopathology of the self.

Contents:

The self and psychiatry / German Berrios and Ivana S. Marková

The self in philosophy, neuroscience and psychiatry / Georg Northoff and Alexander Heinzel

Phenomenology of self / Dan Zahavi

Language and self-consciousness / Maxim Stamenov

Multiplicity of consciousness and the emergence of self / Gerard O'Brien and Jon Opie

Asynchrony, implicational meaning and the experience of self in schizophrenia / Philip Barnard

Self-awareness, social intelligence and schizophrenia / Gordon Gallup, James Anderson and Steven Platek

The neural correlates of self-awareness and self-recognition / Julian Paul Keenan, Mark Wheeler and Michael Ewers

Autonoëtic consciousness / Hans Markovitsch

The neural nature of the core self / Jaak Panksepp

Self and schizophrenia: a neuropsychological perspective / Josef Parnas

Schizophrenia, self-disturbance and the intentional arc / Louis Sass

The self-experience of schizophrenics / Christian Scharfetter

The paranoid self / Richard Bentall

Schizophrenia and the narrative self / James Phillips

Self-narrative in schizophrenia / Shaun Gallagher

Schizophrenia as disturbance of the self construct / Kai Vogeley

Action recognition in normal and schizophrenic subjects / Marc Jeannerod et al

Disorders of self-monitoring and the symptoms of schizophrenia / Sarah-Jane Blakemore and Chris Frith

Hearing voices or hearing the self in disguise? / Cynthia Fu and Philip McGuire

The cognitive neuroscience of agency in schizophrenia / Henrik Walter and Manfred Spitzer

Self-consciousness: an integrative approach from philosophy, psychopathology and the neurosciences / Tilo Kircher and Anthony David.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13093-X

1-280-16082-9

9786610160822

0-511-20511-2

0-511-11961-5

0-511-06364-4

0-511-30793-4

0-511-54370-0

0-511-07210-4

OCLC:

57182268