Abstract: the ®eld of psychiatrically oriented research become obvious in the present book and call for some unifying approaches.Here, the reader of the book is sometimes left with many open questions.However, most of these provide inspiring and exciting food for thought.It is this aspect in particular which makes the present book such enjoyable reading.As the neuroscienti®c study of the self and self-consciousness is in its infancy in terms of established models, available data, and even vocabulary, and because of its interdisciplinary nature, a glossary would help the reader (and should be included in future editions of the book, which I hope will come).Finally, the title of the book (The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry) gives away two interesting aspects.The `Occlumency' against a wealth of knowledge derived from neurological approaches to the self and self-consciousness (e.g. in studies of anosognosia, neglect or extinction; see above) and, more interestingly, in a Freudian sense, the implication of a dualism of neuroscience and psychiatry.The latter contrasts, of course, with the editors' aim to provide an update of current progress in the ®eld of psychiatry by linking theories and experimental procedures from psychology to the results of neuroscience and psychiatric research in patients suffering from schizophrenia.Although the neuroscienti®c study of the self (and self-consciousness) is in its infancy, the book successfully reviews the current status of the ®eld and illustrates the progress of this neuroscienti®cally oriented area of psychiatric research.The understandable decision of the editors to focus their book on psychiatry-related contributions has resulted in a book that can be recommended particularly to those interested in the ®eld of self and self-consciousness from a biologically oriented psychiatric viewpoint.The scienti®c merit of the book, however, clearly goes beyond psychiatry, and it can therefore be recommended to all those scientists and clinicians who are af®liated with research of the self and self-consciousness.Its attractive price makes it good value for money and the ®nal recommendation (even from a neurologist's viewpoint) is accordingly a `strong buy'.