1.Introduction 2. The Nature of Schizophrenia 3. Brain Abnormalities in Schizophrenia 4. Linking the Mind and the Brain 5. Behavioural Abnormalities 6. Positive Symptoms, Abnormal Experiences 7. Communication in Schizophrenia 8. Schizophrenia as a Disorder of Self-Awareness
Christopher D. Frith is Emeritus Professor at University College London, UK, Visiting Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK. In 2009 he was awarded the Fyssen Foundation Prize for his work on neuropsychology.
'This is perhaps the deepest analysis of schizophrenic thought ever
advanced, and one of the most interesting applications of cognitive
science to psychopathology'. - Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor
of Psychology, Harvard University, USA and the author of How the
Mind Works and The Stuff of Thought'This book, first published in
1992, laid the foundations for then new field of cognitive
neuropsychiatry. Its major theme was that schizophrenia is not an
appropriate object for scientific study, and that what should be
studied instead are individual signs and symptoms such as
hallucination or delusion. The major funding body for mental health
research in the USA, the National Institutes of Mental Health, has
at last caught up with what Frith had so cogently demonstrated, and
is realigning its funding priorities accordingly. So the book is as
important now as it was then.' - Max Coltheart, Department of
Cognitive Science and Centre for Cognition and its Disorders,
Macquarie University, Australia‘I came across this book as a young
clinician, frustrated by the gulf between the methods of science
and the complex, often terrifying, experiences that bedeviled
patients. I was immediately inspired by how elegantly and humanely
Frith bridged this gap, making it seem possible to understand these
experiences and explore them scientifically. In the intervening
years, the ideas in this book have shown their worth, providing the
foundations for a neuroscience of psychosis.’- Paul Fletcher,
Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience, University of
Cambridge, UK‘For decades, philosphers of mind stuck to the dogma
that schizophrenia was a psychiatric condition that remained, in
part, "un-understandable", because many psychotic symptoms were
inacessible through empathy ("Einfühlung"). This position has
hampered progress in assigning an interpersonal dimension to the
many different phenotypic manifestations of schizophrenia. It was
Chris Frith's work, then, that contributed fundamentally to a novel
view on psychotic experiences, suggesting that these phenomena can
be understood as dysfunctional ways to connect with and reflect
upon one's own and other minds to form a coherent picture of the
social world. The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia is a
timeless, must-read volume for all those who work with patients
with schizophrenia and want to know what is going on in the
patients' minds.'
- Martin Brüne, LWL University Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum,
Germany'The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia, first
published in 1992, is a classic, not only because it laid out an
innovative understanding of some core schizophrenic symptoms, but
also because it laid the groundwork for many recent theoretical
developments in this area. Frith’s new introduction provides an
insightful overview of related advancements since the original
publication, in conceptual distinctions, in understanding brain
function, in the use of brain imaging technology, and in specific
research areas such as social cognition.'
- Shaun Gallagher, Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis,
USA"What’s in it for readers of a critical disposition? Firstly,
the book provides concise guide to historical research and
prejudices of many of those who are still working in the field. As
the frequency of brain studies increases exponentially, it will be
helpful to know that many of the problems the field discovered in
its infancy are still here with us in the 21st century." - Andrew
Fugard, Phd, Senior Lecturer in Social Science Research Methods at
Birkbeck, University of London
'This is perhaps the deepest analysis of schizophrenic thought ever
advanced, and one of the most interesting applications of cognitive
science to psychopathology'. - Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor
of Psychology, Harvard University, USA and the author of How the
Mind Works and The Stuff of Thought'This book, first published in
1992, laid the foundations for then new field of cognitive
neuropsychiatry. Its major theme was that schizophrenia is not an
appropriate object for scientific study, and that what should be
studied instead are individual signs and symptoms such as
hallucination or delusion. The major funding body for mental health
research in the USA, the National Institutes of Mental Health, has
at last caught up with what Frith had so cogently demonstrated, and
is realigning its funding priorities accordingly. So the book is as
important now as it was then.' - Max Coltheart, Department of
Cognitive Science and Centre for Cognition and its Disorders,
Macquarie University, Australia‘I came across this book as a young
clinician, frustrated by the gulf between the methods of science
and the complex, often terrifying, experiences that bedeviled
patients. I was immediately inspired by how elegantly and humanely
Frith bridged this gap, making it seem possible to understand these
experiences and explore them scientifically. In the intervening
years, the ideas in this book have shown their worth, providing the
foundations for a neuroscience of psychosis.’ - Paul Fletcher,
Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience, University of
Cambridge, UK‘For decades, philosphers of mind stuck to the dogma
that schizophrenia was a psychiatric condition that remained, in
part, "un-understandable", because many psychotic symptoms were
inacessible through empathy ("Einfühlung"). This position has
hampered progress in assigning an interpersonal dimension to the
many different phenotypic manifestations of schizophrenia. It was
Chris Frith's work, then, that contributed fundamentally to a novel
view on psychotic experiences, suggesting that these phenomena can
be understood as dysfunctional ways to connect with and reflect
upon one's own and other minds to form a coherent picture of the
social world. The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia is a
timeless, must-read volume for all those who work with patients
with schizophrenia and want to know what is going on in the
patients' minds.' - Martin Brüne, LWL University Hospital, Ruhr
University Bochum, Germany'The Cognitive Neuropsychology of
Schizophrenia, first published in 1992, is a classic, not only
because it laid out an innovative understanding of some core
schizophrenic symptoms, but also because it laid the groundwork for
many recent theoretical developments in this area. Frith’s new
introduction provides an insightful overview of related
advancements since the original publication, in conceptual
distinctions, in understanding brain function, in the use of brain
imaging technology, and in specific research areas such as social
cognition.' - Shaun Gallagher, Department of Philosophy, University
of Memphis, USAPraise for the 1st edition:It is seldom that one
comes across a book on the subject of Schizophrenia with such fresh
and focused ideas. Frith stimulatingly disentangles outworn
concepts and cuts through the terminological overgrowth…This is a
necessary book for scientists and clinicians; it will give them new
insights and help them shake off vague concepts, and lexical and
taxonomic bad habits. - W. Fraser in Neuropsychologia
He succeeds in giving a clear account of the clinical and
biological issues and proposes a sophisticated psychological
explanation of the core information-processing deficits in
schizophrenia…This book will be of interest to any psychologists,
psychiatrists and allied professionals working with schizophrenic
patients. For researchers both inexperienced and experienced in the
field of information-processing deficits in schizophrenia, this
book will be a source of information and inspiration. - Hilary
Roxborough in British Journal of Clinical Psychology'The doctors do
not understand my illness'…Christopher Frith's monograph is a
superb trampoline on which to bounce this question, for it provides
both a succinct summary of what is known (or conjectured) and a
highly original approach to the notion of explanation in
psychiatric disorders. - John Marshall in NatureI found this a
stimulating and extremely well-written book… The ultimate
scientific challenge facing clinical psychology is to try and
explain abnormal behaviour. Frith's book encourages us to try and
explain schizophrenic experience and behaviour in psychological
terms, and it deserves to be widely read. - Ronan O'Carroll in
Clinical Psychology Forum
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