Developing Mind

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Illuminating how and why neurobiology matters, this book integrates the latest findings from the fields of attachment research, memory, emotion, neuroscience, genetic research, and child psychopathology. Siegel sets forth a compelling new framework for understanding the human mind and its development. How do interpersonal experiences shape the structure and function of the brain? How does brain activity affect what we feel, know, and remember? From neurons and brain circuitry to parent-child communication, the book explores how mental functioning emerges within the context of emotionally connected relationships. Readers gain a scientific foundation for understanding how specific emotional and social experiences can help or hinder development, foster well-being and resilience, and build the cognitive abilities essential for effective learning to take place. A wealth of clinical case examples and observational vignettes enhance the volume's utility.

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

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Siegel (psychiatry, U. of California-Los Angeles) explores how interpersonal relationships influence the genetically programmed unfolding of the human mind. He synthesizes material from several fields, including attachment, memory, emotion, neuroscience, genetics, and psychopathology; and addresses professionals and students concerned with any of them. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Daniel J. Siegel, MD, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Semel Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine. He is on the faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development and is Codirector of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute. An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Siegel’s psychotherapy practice includes children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families.