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This bestselling book put the field of interpersonal neurobiology on the map for many tens of thousands of readers. Daniel J. Siegel goes beyond the nature and nurture divisions that traditionally have constrained much of our thinking about development, exploring the role of interpersonal relationships in forging key connections in the brain. He presents a groundbreaking new way of thinking about the emergence of the human mind and the process by which each of us becomes a feeling, thinking, remembering individual. Illuminating how and why neurobiology matters, this book is essential reading for clinicians, educators, researchers, and students interested in promoting healthy development and resilience.New to This EditionIncorporates significant scientific and technical advances.Expanded discussions of cutting-edge topics, including neuroplasticity, epigenetics, mindfulness, and the neural correlates of consciousness.Useful pedagogical features: pull-outs, diagrams, and a glossary.Epilogue on domains of integration--specific pathways to well-being and therapeutic change.
Introduction. “What Is the Mind, Anyway?”: An Interpersonal Neurobiology Perspective
1. The Embodied Brain, Awareness, and the Nature of Energy
2. States of Mind: Cohesion, Subjective Experience, and Complex Systems
3. Memory and Narrative
4. Attachment and a Sense of Self
5. Emotion as Shifts in Integration
6. Representations and Mental Reality: Modes of Processing and the Construction of Experience
7. Regulation and Coherence
8. Interpersonal Connection and the Relational Mind
9. Integration Within and Between
10. Belonging, “Self,” and an Integrated Identity as Me plus We = MWe: A Framework for Cultivating Integration
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This bestselling book put the field of interpersonal neurobiology on the map for many tens of thousands of readers. Daniel J. Siegel goes beyond the nature and nurture divisions that traditionally have constrained much of our thinking about development, exploring the role of interpersonal relationships in forging key connections in the brain. He presents a groundbreaking new way of thinking about the emergence of the human mind and the process by which each of us becomes a feeling, thinking, remembering individual. Illuminating how and why neurobiology matters, this book is essential reading for clinicians, educators, researchers, and students interested in promoting healthy development and resilience.New to This EditionIncorporates significant scientific and technical advances.Expanded discussions of cutting-edge topics, including neuroplasticity, epigenetics, mindfulness, and the neural correlates of consciousness.Useful pedagogical features: pull-outs, diagrams, and a glossary.Epilogue on domains of integration--specific pathways to well-being and therapeutic change.
