Self-Awareness Deficits in Psychiatric Patients

Bernard D. Beitman and Jyotsna Nair, Editors

Overview – Table of Contents

Contents: Preface

Part 1:

• Toward a Neurobiology of Self-Awareness Why Self-Awareness? Bernard D. Beitman, Jyotsna Nair, George I. Viamontes
  
• Neural Circuits of Self-Awareness: Evolutionary Origins and Implementation in the Human Brain, George I. Viamontes, Bernard D. Beitman, Claudia T. Viamontes, Jorge A. Viamontes
  
• Brain Patterns of Self-Awareness, Alarik T. Arenander, Frederick T. Travis

Part 2:

• Self-Awareness in Psychiatric Patients Disorders of Insight, Self-Awareness and Attribution in Schizophrenia, Laura A. Flashman
  
• Knowing Me, Knowing You: Self-Awareness in Asperger’s and Autism, Jyotsna Nair
  
• Alcohol Denial: Self-awareness and Beyond, Kenneth J. Sher, Amee Jo Epler
  
• Reflective Functioning, Mentalization, and Borderline Personality Disorder, Glen O. Gabbard
  
• Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Disorder of Self-Awareness, Richard J. Burch
  
• Anosognosia and Denial of Illness Following Stroke, Robert G. Robinson
  
• Conversion Disorder: A Disorder of Somatic Self-Awareness, James R. Slaughter, Zac E. Imel

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