![]() Woodruff University of SheffieldĬambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York Information on this title: © Cambridge University Press 2007 This publication is in copyright. Woodruff is Professor and Head of Academic Clinical Psychiatry and Director of the Sheffield Cognition and Neuroimaging Laboratory (SCANLab) at the University of Sheffield, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist for Sheffield Care Trust.Įmpathy in Mental Illness Tom F. Farrow is a Lecturer in Psychiatric Neuroimaging at the University of Sheffield,Īnd Honorary NHS Clinical Scientist for Sheffield Care Trust. Psychiatrists, psychotherapists and related mental health professionals will find this a very useful encapsulation of what is currently known about the role of empathy in mental health and illness. It starts with the clinical psychiatric perspective and covers empathy in the context of mental illness, adult health, developmental course and explanatory models. This book focuses specifically on the role of empathy in mental illness. It is also amenable to manipulation and can be measured by neuropsychological assessment (both state and trait) and neuroimaging techniques. Empathy (or social cognition) is probably affected by several factors, such as neurodevelopmental problems, brain damage and the onset of psychiatric illness. ![]() The lack of ability to empathize is central to many psychiatric conditions. ![]()
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