Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience Philosophical perspectives

Neuroscience has long had an impact on the field of psychiatry, and over the last two decades, with the advent of cognitive neuroscience and functional neuroimaging, that influence has been most pronounced. However, many question whether psychopathology can be understood by relying on neuroscience alone, and highlight some of the perceived limits to the way in which neuroscience informs psychiatry.

Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience is a philosophical analysis of the role of neuroscience in the study of psychopathology. The book examines numerous cognitive neuroscientific methods, such as neuroimaging and the use of neuropsychological models, in the context of a variety of psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia, dependence syndrome, and personality disorders.

Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience includes chapters on the nature of psychiatry as a science; the compatibility of the accounts of mental illness derived from neuroscience, information-processing, and folk psychology; the nature of mental illness; the impact of methods such as fMRI, neuropsychology, and neurochemistry, on psychiatry; the relationship between phenomenological accounts of mental illness and those provided by naturalistic explanations; the status of delusions and the continuity between delusions and ordinary beliefs; the interplay between clinical and empirical findings in psychopathology and issues in moral psychology and ethics.

With contributions from world class experts in philosophy and cognitive science, this book will be essential reading for those who have an interest in the importance and the limitations of cognitive neuroscience as an aid to understanding mental illness.

Introduction: Psychiatry as cognitive neuroscience - an overview, Matthew R Broome & Lisa Bortolotti
Psychiatry as Science
1. Is psychiatric research scientific?, Rachel Cooper
2. A secret history of ICD and the hidden future of DSM, KWM (Bill) Fulford & Norman Sartorius
3. Delusion as a natural kind, Richard Samuels
The Nature of Mental Illness
4. Mental illness is indeed a myth, Hanna Pickard
5. Psychiatry and the concept of disease aas pathology, Dominic Murphy
Reconciling Paradigms
6. On the interface problem in philosophy and psychiatry, Tim Thornton
7. What does rationality have todo with psychological causation? Propositional attitudes as mechanisms and as control variables, John Campbell
8. Mad scientists or unreliable autobiographers? dopamine dysregulation and delusion, Philip Gerrans
Psychiatry and the Neurosciences
9. When time is out of joint: schizophrenia and functional neuroimaging, Dan Lloyd
10. Philosophy and cognitive-affective neurogenetics, Dan Stein
11. An addictive lesson: a case study in psychiatry as cognitive neuroscience, Lynn Stephens & George Graham
Phenomenology and Scientific Explanation
12. Understanding existential changes in psychiatric illness: the indispensability of phenomenology, Matthew Ratcliffe
13. Delusional realities, Shaun Gallagher
Delusions and Cognition
14. Delusion: a two-level framework, Keith Frankish
15. Explaining pathologies of belief, Anne M Aimola Davies & Martin Davies
Moral Psychology and Psychopathology
16. Mental time travel, agency and responsibility, Jeanette Kennett & Steve Matthews
17. Motivation, depression and character, Iain Law
Conclusion - The future of scientific psychiatry, Lisa Bortolotti & Matthew R Broome