Auteur : Farrow, Tom F.D. / Woodruff, Peter

Maison d'édition : Cambridge University Press

Date de publication : 2007

Collation : xxvi, 506 p.

Collection : Cambridge Medicine

ISBN : 0521847346

Langue : Anglais

Table des matières : 1. Empathic dysfunction in psychopathic individuals -- 2. Empathy deficits in schizophrenia -- 3. Empathy, antisocial behaviour and personality pathology -- 4. Empathy and depression : the moral system on overdrive -- 5. Empathy, social intelligence and aggression in adolescent boys and girls -- 6. Impaired empathy following ventromedial prefrontal brain damage -- 7. Non-autism childhood empathy disorders -- 8. Empathy and autism -- 9. Neonatal antecedents and empathy -- 10. The evolutionary neurobiology, emergence and facilitation of empathy -- 11. Naturally occurring variability in state empathy -- 12. Neuroimaging of empathy -- 13. The neurophysiology of empathy -- 14. The cognitive neuropsychology of empathy -- 15. The genetics of empathy and its disorders -- 16. Empathogenic agents : their use, abuse, mechanism of action and addiction potential -- 17. Existential empathy : the intimacy of self and other -- 18. Empathizing and systemizing in males, females and autism : a test of the neural competition theory -- 19. Motivational-affective processing and the neural foundations of empathy -- 20. Face processing and empathy -- 21. Balancing the empathy expense account : strategies for regulating empathic response -- 22. Empathic accuracy : measurement and potential clinical applications -- 23. A perception-action model for empathy -- 24. The Shared Manifold Hypothesis : embodied simulation and its role in empathy and social cognition -- 25. Using literature and the arts to develop empathy in medical students

Résumé : The lack of ability to empathise 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 specifically focuses on the role of empathy in mental illness. It starts with the clinical psychiatric perspective and overs empathy in the context of mental illness, adult health, developmental course, and explanatory models. Psychiatrists, psychotherapists and mental health professionals will find this a very useful encapsulation of what is currently known about the role of empathy as it relates to mental illness.

Mots-clés : Empathie / Malades mentaux - Psychologie

Cote : BF 575.E55 E55 2007