Self-Awareness Deficits in Psychiatric Patients:Neurobiology, Assessment, and Treatment

Bernard D. Beitman and Jyotsna Nair, Editors

Praise for Self-Awareness Deficits in Psychiatric Patients:

"[T]he concept of the book is excellent, and its chapters-ranging from neural circuitry to conversion disorder--provide both basic neurobiological knowledge and clinical vignettes. All in all, a laudable enterprise."
—The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Overview – Table of Contents - Preface

Advances in neurobiological knowledge and neuroimaging technology have contributed greatly to our investigations into the nature of self-awareness. Beitman and Nair have gathered an impressive array of clinical researchers to not only assess the current neurobiological understanding of self-awareness but also address the major psychiatric disorders of self-awareness. Each of the clinical chapters includes discussions of diagnostic manifestations, neurobiology, and treatment plans, as well as presentations of case vignettes for the disorder under consideration. Self-Awareness Deficits in Psychiatric Patients provides clinicians with the concepts basic to a fully integrated neurobiological concept of human consciousness and the insight that will help them grasp how people with disorders understand themselves from a mind-body perspective.

About the Authors

Bernard D. Beitman, M.D., is Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia. (See pages ## and ## for other titles by Beitman.)

Jyotsna Nair, M.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia.

ISBN: 0-393-70435-1
Winter 2005
Paperback; 304 pages