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The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry
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 es disordered
and this aspect can be studied against healthy controls through experiments, building cognitive
models of how the mind works, and imaging brain states. In this, the first book 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.
Tilo Kircher is Senior Lecturer and Consultant Psychiatrist at the Department of Psychiatry at
the University of Tubingen.¨
Anthony David is Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry and
Consultant Psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital, London.
The Self in Neuroscience
and Psychiatry
Edited by
Tilo Kircher
Department of Psychiatry, University of Tubingen,¨ Germany
and
Anthony David
Institute of Psychiatry and Maudsley Hospital, London, UK
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