Disorder of volition
- London MIT Press 2009
- 493 p.
Contents:
1 Toward a Science of Volition 1 Wolfgang Prinz, Daniel Dennett, and Natalie Sebanz
I Conceptual Foundations 17 2 Conscious Volition and Mental Representation: Toward a More Fine-Grained Analysis 19 Thomas Metzinger 3 The Feeling of Doing: Deconstructing the Phenomenology of Agency 49 Tim Bayne and Neil Levy 4 Conscious Intention and the Sense of Agency 69 Patrick Haggard 5 Agency in Schizophrenia from a Control Theory Viewpoint 87 Joëlle Proust 6 A Selectionist Model of the Ego: Implications for Self-Control 119 George Ainslie 7 If–Then Plans and the Intentional Control of Thoughts, Feelings, and Action 151 Anna-Lisa Cohen and Peter Gollwitzer
II Disorders of Volition in Schizophrenia 173 8 From Volition to Agency: The Mechanism of Action Recognition and Its Failures 175 Marc Jeannerod 9 Motivated Attention and Schizophrenia 193 Peter F. Liddle 10 Schizophrenic Avolition: Implications from Functional and Structural Neuroimaging 207 Sean A. Spence and Chris Parry 11 Interpersonal Factors in the Disorders of Volition Associated with Schizophrenia 233 Chris Frith
III Disorders of Volition in Depression 249 12 Prefrontal and Anterior Cingulate Contributions to Volition in Depression 251 Jack B. Nitschke and Kristen L. Mackiewitz 13 Action Control and Its Failure in Clinical Depression: A Neurocognitive Theory 275 Werner X. Schneider 14 The Cost of Pleasure: Effort and Cognition in Anhedonia and Depression 307 Roland Jouvent, Stéphanie Dubal, and Philippe Fossati
IV Disorders of Volition in Patients with Prefrontal Lobe Damage 327 15 The Human Ventrolateral Frontal Cortex and Intended Action 329 Adrian M. Owen 16 Volition and the Human Prefrontal Cortex 347 Jordan Grafman and Frank Krueger 17 Rostral Prefrontal Brain Regions (Area 10): A Gateway between Inner Thought and the External World? 373 Paul W. Burgess, Sam J. Gilbert, Jiro Okuda, and Jon S. Simons
V Disorders of Volition in Substance Abuse 397 18 Broken Willpower: Impaired Mechanisms of Decision Making and Impulse Control in Substance Abusers 399 Antoine Bechara 19 Craving, Cognition, and the Self-Regulation of Cigarette Smoking 419 Michael A. Sayette vi Contents 20 A Dynamic Model of the Will with an Application to Alcohol-Intoxicated Behavior 439 Jay G. Hull and Laurie B. Slone List of Contributors 457 Index 459
Science tries to understand human action from two perspectives, the cognitive and the volitional. The volitional approach, in contrast to the more dominant "outside-in" studies of cognition, looks at actions from the inside out, examining how actions are formed and informed by internal conditions. In Disorders of Volition, scholars from a range of disciplines seek to advance our understanding of the processes supporting voluntary action by addressing conditions in which the will is impaired. Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and psychiatrists examine the will and its pathologies from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, offering a conceptual overview and discussing specific neurological and psychiatric conditions as disorders of volition.After presenting different conceptual frameworks that identify agency, decision making, and goal pursuit as central components of volition, the book examines how impairments in these and other aspects of volition manifest themselves in schizophrenia, depression, prefrontal lobe damage, and substance abuse.