Introduction: the self and neuroscience Tilo Kircher and Anthony David; Part A. Conceptual Background: 1. The self and psychiatry German Berrios and Ivana S. Marková; 2. The self in philosophy, neuroscience and psychiatry Georg Northoff and Alexander Heinzel; 3. Phenomenology of self Dan Zahavi; 4. Language and self-consciousness Maxim Stamenov; Part B. Cognitive and Neurosciences: 5. Multiplicity of consciousness and the emergence of self Gerard O'Brien and Jon Opie; 6. Asynchrony; implicational meaning and the experience of self in schizophrenia Philip Barnard; 7. Self-awareness, social intelligence and schizophrenia Gordon Gallup, James Anderson and Steven Platek; 8. The neural correlates of self-awareness and self-recognition Julian Paul Keenan, Mark Wheeler and Michael Ewers; 9. Autonoëtic consciousness Hans Markovitsch; 10. The neural nature of the core self Jaak Panksepp; Part C. Disturbances of the Self: The Case of Schizophrenia: i. Phenomenology: 11. Self and schizophrenia: a neuropsychological perspective Josef Parnas; 12. Schizophrenia, self-disturbance and the intentional arc Louis Sass; 13. The self-experience of schizophrenics Christian Scharfetter; ii. Social Psychology: 14. The paranoid self Richard Bentall; 15. Schizophrenia and the narrative self James Phillips; 16. Self-narrative in schizophrenia Shaun Gallagher; iii. Clinical Neuroscience: 17. Schizophrenia as disturbance of the self construct Kai Vogeley; 18. Action recognition in normal and schizophrenic subjects Marc Jeannerod et al; 19. Disorders of self-monitoring and the symptoms of schizophrenia Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Chris Frith; 20. Hearing voices or hearing the self in disguise? Cynthia Fu and Philip McGuire; 21. The cognitive neuroscience of agency in schizophrenia Henrik Walter and Manfred Spitzer; 22. Self-consciousness: an integrative approach from philosophy, psychopathology and the neurosciences Tilo Kircher and Anthony David; Index.