Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology
A compact reference defining interpersonal neurobiology and its view of the mind.
Stands out for its skillful weaving together of the interpersonal, the inner world, the latest science, and practical applications.
Daniel J. Siegel gathers the field he helped name, interpersonal neurobiology, into a single working reference. The book sets out the framework's core proposition: that the mind is not confined to the skull but arises as a process regulating the flow of energy and information, shaped as much by relationships as by neural firing. Entries range across attachment, memory, emotion, attention, and integration, each defined and cross-referenced.
The format is unusual. Chapters are built to be entered at any point, mirroring the networked structure the theory describes, so a clinician can look up a concept rather than read cover to cover. Terms are given precise definitions alongside the research behind them.
For a practitioner, it works as a desk companion: a place to check what a term means within this model, to see how developmental science connects to relational experience, and to locate the ideas underpinning mindsight and integration in clinical work.
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
- 2012
- W. W. Norton
- W. W. Norton
- 560
- 9780393707137