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John Cutting is an honorary senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. He has published on the neuropsychology and psychopathology of psychiatric disorders: for example, Cutting, J. 1990. The Right Cerebral Hemisphere and Psychiatric Disorders, Oxford: Oxford University Press; and Cutting, J. 1997. The Principles of Psychopathology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. He can be contacted at Mill Wood, Wall Hill, Forest Row, East Sussex, RH18 5EG, United Kingdom.
Charles Guignon has written extensively on Heidegger, is the author of On Being Authentic, co-authored a critical study of psychology titled Re-envisioning Psychology, and has edited or co-edited a number of books, including Richard Rorty, The Good Life, two works by Dostoevsky— The Grand Inquisitor and Notes from the Underground—and two volumes of readings by and about existentialists. He is currently professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He can be contacted via e-mail at: guignon@cas.usf.edu
Martin Heinze holds the position of a consultant psychiatrist at the Center for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Bremen, Germany. He is in the executive boards of the Berlin-based Gesellschaft für Philosophie und Wissenschaften der Psyche and of the section for philosophical foundations of psychiatry and psychotherapy of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Nervenheilkunde. In his main field of research, philosophy of psychiatry, he edited numerous books, including Das Mass des Leidens, Würzburg 2003. He can be contacted via e-mail at: martin. heinze@klinikum-bremen-ost.de
Iain McGilchrist is a former Consultant Psychiatrist at the Bethlem & Maudsley Hospitals, UK and currently works in private practice. He has been four times elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University. His book The Master and his Emissary is to be published by Yale University Press in 2009. He can be contacted via e-mail at: iain.mcgilchrist@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
Aaron Mishara obtained a first doctorate in philosophy (Pennsylvania State University) by researching German phenomenological-descriptive approaches to psychopathology, especially schizophrenia. He received two successive Fulbright- Hays grants to undertake this research in Germany. During this time, he studied with leaders in the field, including W. Blankenburg, A. Kraus, R. Kuhn, H. Lang, and D. Wyss, and met for ongoing Diskussion with H.-G. Gadamer. He then taught medical psychology and philosophical psychology (in German) in the German university system. He returned to the U.S. to complete a second doctorate in clinical psychology and a certificate in cognitive science at Rutgers University. He also trained in the neuropsychology of psychiatric and neurologic disorders in Danny Weinberger’s (NIMH/NIH) and Mark Hallet’s (NINDS/NIH) labs. At Yale, he has received NARSAD research grant and employs neuroimaging methods to [End Page 213] study neurocognition and symptoms of schizophrenia, including how the phenomenological study of paranoid psychosis and delusions may lead to neurobiological hypotheses. At the Yale Whitney Humanities Center, he runs working groups on literature, visual arts, embodied cognition and neuroscience, and has recently published on Kafka’s paranoic doubles, delusions and the brain. Currently, he is guest-researcher in the Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University, UK. He has published numerous articles and book chapters. He can be contacted via e-mail at: Aaron.Mishara@Yale.edu
Matthew Ratcliffe is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, UK. Most of his recent work addresses issues in phenomenology, philosophy of psychology and philosophy of psychiatry. He is author of Rethinking Commonsense Psychology: A Critique of Folk Psychology, Theory of Mind and Simulation (Palgrave, 2007) and Feelings of Being: Phenomenology, Psychiatry and the Sense of Reality (Oxford University Press, 2008). He can be contacted via e-mail at: M.J.Ratcliffe@durham.ac.uk
Louis Sass is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University. He is the author of Madness and Modernism (1992) and The Paradoxes of Delusion (1994). Recent articles include studies of schizophrenia and emotion (Cognition and Emotion 2007), of personhood in schizophrenia (Theory and Psychology 2007), and of phenomenology as description and explanation (forthcoming in Handbook of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences). He can be contacted via e-mail at: lsass@rci.rutgers.edu
Johan Siebers is a philosopher and...
