This book, first published in 2007, focuses on the role of empathy in mental illness.

Part I. 'Dysempathy' in Psychiatric Samples: Foreword: empathy in mental illness Peter W. R. Woodruff; 1. Empathic dysfunction in psychopathic individuals James Blair; 2. Empathy deficits in schizophrenia Kwang H. Lee; 3. Empathy, antisocial behaviour and personality pathology Mairead Dolan and Rachael Fullam; 4. Empathy and depression Lynn O'Connor, Jack Berry, Thomas Lewis, Katherine Mulherin and Eunice Yi; 5. Empathy, social intelligence, and aggression in adolescent boys and girls Kaj Björkqvist; 6. Impaired empathy following ventromedial prefrontal brain damage Simone Shamay-Tsoory; 7. Non-autism childhood empathy disorders Christopher Gillberg; 8. Empathy and autism Peter Hobson; Part II. Empathy and Related Concepts in Health: 9. Neonatal antecedents for empathy Miguel Diego and Nancy Aaron Jones; 10. The evolutionary neurobiology, emergence and facilitation of empathy James Harris; 11. Naturally occurring variability in state empathy John Nezlek, Astrid Schütz, Paulo Lopes and C. Veronica Smith; 12. Neuroimaging of empathy Tom Farrow; 13. The neurophysiology of empathy Nancy Aaron Jones and Chantal Gagnon; 14. The cognitive neuropsychology of empathy Jean Decety, Philip Jackson and Eric Brunet; 15. The genetics of empathy and its disorders Henrik Anckarsäter and Robert Cloninger; 16. Empathogenic agents: their use, abuse, mechanism of action and addiction potential Dan Velea and Michel Hautefeuille; 17. Existential empathy: the intimacy of self and other Marco Iacoboni; 18. Empathizing and systemizing in males, females, and autism: a test of the neural competition theory Nigel Goldenfeld, Simon Baron-Cohen, Sally Wheelwright, Chris Ashwin and Bhismadev Chakrabarti; 19. Motivational-affective processing and the neural foundations of empathy India Morrison; 20. Face processing and empathy Tony Atkinson; Part III. Empathic Models, Regulation and Measurement of Empathy: 21. Balancing the empathy expense account: strategies for regulating empathic response Sara Hodges and Robert Biswas-Diener; 22. Empathic accuracy: measurement and potential clinical applications Marianne Schmid Mast and William Ickes; 23. A Perception-Action model for empathy Stephanie Preston; 24. The Shared Manifold Hypothesis: embodied simulation and its role in empathy and social cognition Vittorio Gallese; 25. Using literature and the arts to develop empathy in medical students Johanna Shapiro.