The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia (Classic Edition) [Hardcover]

This is a classic edition of Christopher Friths award winning book on cognitive neuropsychology and schizophrenia, which now includes a new introduction from the author. The book explores the signs and symptoms of schizophrenia using the framework of cognitive neuropsychology, looking specifically at the cognitive abnormalities that underlie these symptoms. The book won the British Psychological Society book award in 1996, and is now widely seen as a classic in the field of brain disorders.

The new introduction sees the author reflect on the influence of his research and the subsequent developments in the field, more than 20 years since the book was first published.

1.Introduction 2. The Nature of Schizophrenia 3. Brain Abnormalities in Schizophrenia 4. Linking the Mind and the Brain 5. Behavioural Abnormalities 6. Positive Symptoms, Abnormal Experiences 7. Communication in Schizophrenia 8. Schizophrenia as a Disorder of Self-Awareness

'This is perhaps the deepest analysis of schizophrenic thought ever advanced, and one of the most interesting applications of cognitive science to psychopathology'.
- Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, USA and the author ofHow the Mind WorksandThe Stuff of Thought

'This book, first published in 1992, laid the foundations for then new field of cognitive neuropsychiatry. Its major theme was that schizophrenia is not an appropriate object for scientific study, and that what should be studied instead are individual signs and symptoms such as hallucination or delusion. The major funding body for mental health research in the USA, the National Institutes of Mental Health, has at last caught up with what Frith had so cogently demonstrated, and is realigning its funding priorities accordingly. So the book is as important now as it was then.'