The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry

Prof. A. David, Section of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF. 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.

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.