The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

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Guilford Press, Apr 9, 1999 - Psychology - 394 pages
This book 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. Daniel J. Siegel 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 human experience and development across the life span
 

Contents

Cover
Integration
Memory
Attachment
Emotion
Modes of Processing
Cohesion Subjective
SelfRegulation
Interpersonal Connection
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX
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Daniel J. Siegel was born on September 2, 1957. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and executive director of the Mindsight Institute. He received a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his post-graduate medical education at UCLA. His training is in pediatrics and child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. Siegel was the recipient of the UCLA psychiatry department's teaching award and several honorary fellowships for his work as director of UCLA's training program in child psychiatry and the Infant and Preschool Service at UCLA. He is the author of several books on parenting and child development including The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being, The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience, Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, and Parenting from the Inside Out, which he co-wrote with Mary Hartzell. Siegel is known as a mindfulness expert and for his work developing the field of Interpersonal Neurobiology which is an interdisciplinary view of life experience. He is the author of Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence--The Groundbreaking Meditation Practice.

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