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The self in neuroscience and psychiatry /

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. This book focuses on neuropsychiatric models of self-consciousness, set against introductory essays describing the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Kircher, Tilo, 1965-, David, Anthony S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: the self and neuroscience; REFERENCES; 1 The self and psychiatry: a conceptual history; 2 The self in philosophy, neuroscience and psychiatry: an epistemic approach; 3 Phenomenology of self; 4 Language and self-consciousness: modes of self-presentation in language structure; 5 The multiplicity of consciousness and the emergence of the self; 6 Asynchrony, implicational meaning and the experience of self in schizophrenia; 7 Self-awareness, social intelligence and schizophrenia.