The Lost Self: Pathologies of the Brain and Identity. Todd E. Feinberg and Julian Paul Keenan (Eds.). 2005. New York: Oxford University Press, 275 pp., $49.95 (HB).

The recent emergence of the field of social cognitive neuroscience has been accompanied by an increasing number of studies aimed at uncovering the neurobiological basis of the self. For instance, several studies have now been published using functional neuroimaging to uncover neural responses to self-related processing in healthy subjects. Complementing this approach, important insights regarding the brain and the self can be obtained from studying neurological and psychiatric conditions that affect the self. Examples of such conditions are frontal lobe impairment, autobiographical disorders, dissociative disorders, schizophrenia, and autism. The Lost Self, edited by Todd E. Feinberg and Julian Paul Keenan, addresses both types of research endeavors. The reader gets even more: a perspective from philosophy and a first-person account.