The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry

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.

Author: Tilo Kircher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/22/2003
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 9.80h x 7.10w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780521803878

About the Author
Kircher, Tilo: - Prof. A. David, Section of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF.David, Anthony: - Anthony David was born 14.1.1965. 1985-92 studies in medicine, philosophy, literature at the University of Munich, Germany and University of Washington, Seattle, USA. 1992-4 Training Psychiatrist, Dept. Psychiatry, University of Munich, Germany. 1994-current Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Tübingen, Germany. 1997-2000 Researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK 2000-1 Dept. of Neurology, Univ. of Tübingen, Germany. Book: Neuronale Korrelate von Sprachproduktion und -verständnis bei Gesunden und Patienten mit Schizophrenie, Steinkopf Verlag (forthcoming) publications in leading journals on functional brain imaging, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's dementia, geriatric medicine, history of psychiatry, relaxation techniques.