Cambridge University Press, 3/29/2007EAN 9780521847346, ISBN10: 0521847346Hardcover, 534 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 2.9 cmLanguage: EnglishThe lack of ability to emphathize is central to many psychiatric conditions. Empathy is affected by neurodevelopment, brain pathology and psychiatric illness. Empathy is both a state and a trait characteristic. Empathy is measurable by neuropsychological assessment and neuroimaging techniques. This book, first published in 2007, specifically focuses on the role of empathy in mental illness. It starts with the clinical psychiatric perspective and covers empathy in the context of mental illness, adult health, developmental course, and explanatory models. Psychiatrists, psychotherapists and mental heath professionals will find this a very useful reference for their work.Part I. 'Dysempathy' in Psychiatric SamplesForewordempathy in mental illness Peter W. R. Woodruff1. Empathic dysfunction in psychopathic individuals James Blair2. Empathy deficits in schizophrenia Kwang H. Lee3. Empathy, antisocial behaviour and personality pathology Mairead Dolan and Rachael Fullam4. Empathy and depression Lynn O'Connor, Jack Berry, Thomas Lewis, Katherine Mulherin and Eunice Yi5. Empathy, social intelligence, and aggression in adolescent boys and girls Kaj Björkqvist6. Impaired empathy following ventromedial prefrontal brain damage Simone Shamay-Tsoory7. Non-autism childhood empathy disorders Christopher Gillberg8. Empathy and autism Peter HobsonPart II. Empathy and Related Concepts in Health9. Neonatal antecedents for empathy Miguel Diego and Nancy Aaron Jones10. The evolutionary neurobiology, emergence and facilitation of empathy James Harris11. Naturally occurring variability in state empathy John Nezlek, Astrid Schütz, Paulo Lopes and C. Veronica Smith12. Neuroimaging of empathy Tom Farrow13. The neurophysiology of empathy Nancy Aaron Jones and Chantal Gagnon14. The cognitive neuropsychology of empathy Jean Decety, Philip Jackson and Eric Brunet15. The genetics of empathy and its disorders Henrik Anckarsäter and Robert Cloninger16. Empathogenic agentstheir use, abuse, mechanism of action and addiction potential Dan Velea and Michel Hautefeuille17. Existential empathythe intimacy of self and other Marco Iacoboni18. Empathizing and systemizing in males, females, and autisma test of the neural competition theory Nigel Goldenfeld, Simon Baron-Cohen, Sally Wheelwright, Chris Ashwin and Bhismadev Chakrabarti19. Motivational-affective processing and the neural foundations of empathy India Morrison20. Face processing and empathy Tony AtkinsonPart III. Empathic Models, Regulation and Measurement of Empathy21. Balancing the empathy expense accountstrategies for regulating empathic response Sara Hodges and Robert Biswas-Diener22. Empathic accuracymeasurement and potential clinical applications Marianne Schmid Mast and William Ickes23. A Perception-Action model for empathy Stephanie Preston24. The Shared Manifold Hypothesisembodied simulation and its role in empathy and social cognition Vittorio Gallese25. Using literature and the arts to develop empathy in medical students Johanna Shapiro.'In summary, this book is an excellent addition to the literature on social cognition - an ambitious attempt to draw together the multiple branches of empathy research seems to have been met with success.' Psychological Medicine
