Personality and Wholeness in Therapy
Integrates nine developmental personality patterns with interpersonal neurobiology.
This weave of neurobiology, contemporary psychology, and deep wisdom offers the most fascinating and helpful framework for understanding personality that I've encountered!
Personality and Wholeness in Therapy sets the framework commonly known as the Enneagram alongside interpersonal neurobiology, recasting its nine types as Patterns of Developmental Pathways, or PDPs. Daniel J. Siegel wrote it with the PDP Group (Laura Baker, David Daniels, Denise Daniels, and Jack Killen), who treat each pattern as a developed strategy for making sense of experience rather than a fixed label.
For the clinician, the book supplies detailed portraits of the nine patterns, groups them by the vectors of agency, bonding, and certainty, and pairs each with integrative practices aimed at movement toward well-being. It argues that a person's habitual pattern can loosen, so that traits which once constrained a client become a resource in the consulting room.
W. W. Norton published it in 2024 within its series on interpersonal neurobiology.
About the author
Daniel Siegel
Daniel J. Siegel is an American physician and clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. Trained in pediatrics and in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry, he founded the approach he calls interpersonal neurobiology and serves as director of education at the Mindsight Institute. He is founding editor of the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology and the author of many books, among them The Developing Mind, Mindsight, Brainstorm, and Aware. He was a founding co-director of UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center.
Details
- 2024
- W. W. Norton
- W. W. Norton
- 416
- 9781324016298