Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience

`Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience is a collection of consistently high quality chapters addressing a variety of conceptual issues regarding the role that the cognitive neurosciences can play in psychiatry. Best described as a work of interdisciplinary philosophy, the book has a broader appeal than it would were it primarily an attempt to construe scientific psychiatry as a type of cognitive neuroscience.' P Zachar, Psychological Medicine `Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience: Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Matthew R. Broome and Lisa Bortolotti, two of the most talented thinkers in the fields of theoretical psychiatry and philosophy of cognitive science, is an absorbing and thorough philosophical analysis of how psychopathology is studied in psychiatry and psychology through the paradigms of cognitive neuroscience and cognitive neuropsychiatry. This multi-authored book beautifully covers a wide range of topics, including the nature of psychiatry as a science, the nature of mental illness, the reconciliation of neuroscience with clinical psychiatry, and moral responsibility in conditions such as dissociative disorders.' A Cavanna, S Shah and H Rickards, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry `Matthew Broome and Lisa Bortolotti have assembled a stellar cast of contributors to this volume. They bring together philosophy and neuroscience in an attempt to give an account of psychopathology that is more detailed and penetrating than the standard descriptions and definitions. The quality of the writing and analysis is uniformly excellent without becoming inaccessible to a clinical readership. The combination of rigorous conceptual analysis and neuroscience will take psychiatry in new directions in future years. This book offers an important route map to that future.' J Callender, British Journal of Psychiatry