Contents -- 1 - Toward a Science of Volition -- I - Conceptual Foundations -- 2 - Conscious Volition and Mental Representation: Toward a More Fine-Grained Analysis -- 3 - The Feeling of Doing: Deconstructing the Phenomenology of Agency -- 4 - Conscious Intention and the Sense of Agency -- 5 - Agency in Schizophrenia from a Control Theory Viewpoint -- 6 - A Selectionist Model of the Ego: Implications for Self-Control -- 7 - If-Then Plans and the Intentional Control of Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions -- II - Disorders of Volition in Schizophrenia -- 8 - From Volition to Agency: The Mechanism of Action Recognitionand Its Failures -- 9 - Motivated Attention and Schizophrenia -- 10 - Schizophrenic Avolition: Implications from Functional and Structural Neuroimaging -- 11 - Interpersonal Factors in the Disorders of Volition Associated with Schizophrenia -- III - Disorders of Volition in Depression -- 12 - Prefrontal and Anterior Cingulate Contributions to Volition in Depression -- 13 - Action Control and Its Failure in Clinical Depression: A Neurocognitive Theory -- 14 - The Cost of Pleasure: Effort and Cognition in Anhedonia and Depression -- IV - Disorders of Volition in Patients with Prefrontal Lobe Damage -- 15 - The Human Ventrolateral Frontal Cortex and Intended Action -- 16 - Volition and the Human Prefrontal Cortex -- 17 - Rostral Prefrontal Brain Regions (Area 10): A Gateway between Inner Thought and the External World? -- V - Disorders of Volition in Substance Abuse -- 18 - Broken Willpower: Impaired Mechanisms and Impulse Control in Substance Abusers -- 19 - Craving, Cognition, and the Self-Regulation of Cigarette Smoking -- 20 - A Dynamic Model of the Will with an Application to Alcohol-Intoxicated Behavior -- List of Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.