The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry

"...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

In recent years neuroscience has 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. In this book 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.