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 Neuroscienceis 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 Neuroscienceincludes 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.

Matthew Broome is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Warwick and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist to the Coventry Early Intervention Team, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust. His main research interests are in the prodromal phase of psychosis, cognitive neuropsychology of delusion formation, functional neuroimaging and the philosophy of psychiatry and cognitive science. Matthew Broome is Chair of the Philosophy Special Interest Group, Royal College of Psychiatrists, a member of the editorial board of European Psychiatry; Neuroethics; Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, a founder member of the Maudsley Philosophy Group and Trustee of the Maudsley Philosophy Group Trust and was awarded the Association of European Psychiatrists' Prize for Psychopathology in 2006. Lisa Bortolotti is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham (UK). Her main research interests are in the philosophy of the cognitive sciences and in the intersection between philosophy of mind and ethics. She has published a number of articles on belief ascription, rationality and delusions in journals such as Mind & Language and Philosophical Psychology. She is the author of a textbook in the Philosophy of Science for Polity Press, and she is working on a monograph defending the doxastic conception of delusions. Lisa Bortolotti was awarded a 2008 Endeavour Research Fellowship, funded by the Australian Government, to spend 4-6 months working at the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Sciences.

Introduction: Psychiatry as cognitive neuroscience - an overview, Matthew R Broome & Lisa BortolottiPsychiatry as Science1. Is psychiatric research scientific?, Rachel Cooper2. A secret history of ICD and the hidden future of DSM, KWM (Bill) Fulford & Norman Sartorius3. Delusion as a natural kind, Richard SamuelsThe Nature of Mental Illness4. Mental illness is indeed a myth, Hanna Pickard5. Psychiatry and the concept of disease aas pathology, Dominic MurphyReconciling Paradigms6. On the interface problem in philosophy and psychiatry, Tim Thornton7. What does rationality have todo with psychological causation? Propositional attitudes as mechanisms and as control variables, John Campbell8. Mad scientists or unreliable autobiographers? dopamine dysregulation and delusion, Philip GerransPsychiatry and the Neurosciences9. When time is out of joint: schizophrenia and functional neuroimaging, Dan Lloyd10. Philosophy and cognitive-affective neurogenetics, Dan Stein11. An addictive lesson: a case study in psychiatry as cognitive neuroscience, Lynn Stephens & George GrahamPhenomenology and Scientific Explanation12. Understanding existential changes in psychiatric illness: the indispensability of phenomenology, Matthew Ratcliffe13. Delusional realities, Shaun GallagherDelusions and Cognition14. Delusion: a two-level framework, Keith Frankish15. Explaining pathologies of belief, Anne M Aimola Davies & Martin DaviesMoral Psychology and Psychopathology16. Mental time travel, agency and responsibility, Jeanette Kennett & Steve Matthews17. Motivation, depression and character, Iain LawConclusion - The future of scientific psychiatry, Lisa Bortolotti & Matthew R Broome