About the Authors

Gwen Adshead is Consultant Psychiatrist at the Traumatic Stress Clinic at Middlesex Hospital and Consultant Psychotherapist at the Broadmoor Hospital. She has a particular interest in the psychological development of the capacity to relate to others and is involved in research into attachment styles in female offenders.

Piers Benn is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England, UK. His interests are largely in ethical theory, normative ethics, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of psychiatry. Among his publications are Ethics (London: University College London Press; Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998) and "Morality, the Unborn, and the Open Future" in Questions of Time and Tense, ed. Robin Le Poidevin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).

Anthony S. David, FRCP, FRCPsych, MD is Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry and the GKT School of Medicine, London, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital. His research interests include insight in psychoses, neuropsychology of schizophrenia, and neuroimaging. He graduated from Glasgow University and trained in neurology before moving to psychiatry at Maudsley. He is co-editor of Insight and Psychosis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).

Carl Elliott is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Pediatrics at the Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota, N504 Boynton Hall, 410 Church St. SE, Minneapolis MN 55455-0346, USA. His most recent book is A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture, and Identity (New York: Routledge, 1999). He is also co-editor, with John Lantos, of The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, in press).

S. Nassir Ghaemi is Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Assistant Director, Harvard Bipolar Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital. His research interests include the phenomenology of insight, nosology, and psychopharmacological treatment of mood disorders. Among his recent publications are F. K. Goodwin and S. N. Ghaemi, "Prospects for a Scientific Psychiatry," Acta Neuropsychiatrica 9(1997):49-51.

Grant Gillett is Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and a practicing neurosurgeon. He qualified in medicine in Auckland and did a D.Phil in philosophy at Oxford University. After moving to the University of Otago, he has continued to teach and write in philosophy, philosophical psychology, and philosophy of psychiatry. His books include Representation, Meaning, and Thought (Oxford University Press) and The Mind and Its Discontents (Oxford University Press).

James Harold is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the University of Minnesota, 355 Ford Hall, 224 Church St. SE, Minneapolis MN 55455, USA. His research concerns ethics, aesthetics, and practical reasoning. He has written on the relationship between moral and aesthetic judgments, the nature of intrinsic value, and the role of empathy in appreciating fiction.

Edgar Jones is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College School of Medicine, 103 Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ, UK, where he is currently working on the phenomenology of war syndromes. His doctorate investigated the nature of delusion in schizophrenia and he has a continuing interest in abnormal beliefs.

Ralph Slovenko is Professor of Law and Psychiatry at theWayne State University School of Law, Detroit, MI 48202. He is the author of Psychiatry and Criminal Culpability (New York: Wiley, 1995).

G. Lynn Stephens is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He co-edited, with George Graham, Philosophical Psychopathology (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994) and also co-authored several papers on the disorders of self-consciousness with George Graham, most recently, "Psychopathology, Freedom, and the Experience of Externality," Philosophical Topics (1996).

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