The Yes Brain
Helps parents foster a receptive state of courage, curiosity and resilience.
This unique and exciting book shows us how to help children embrace life with all of its challenges and thrive in the modern world.
Siegel and Bryson set out a working distinction between two neural states: a reactive condition, which they call the No Brain, where a child becomes rigid, defensive and closed, and a receptive condition, the Yes Brain, in which the same child can stay flexible, curious and open to what a moment asks of them. The book treats these not as fixed traits but as states a caregiver's responses can shift, and it maps four qualities the authors group under receptivity: balance, resilience, insight and empathy.
Written for parents by the authors of The Whole-Brain Child, it translates interpersonal neurobiology into household scenes and scripted exchanges. For a clinician, the value lies less in the parenting technique than in its plain account of how a regulating relationship widens a child's window of tolerance. Bantam published it in 2018.
About the authors
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.
Tina Payne Bryson
Tina Payne Bryson is an American psychotherapist and licensed clinical social worker (LCSW). She founded and directs the Center for Connection, a mental health clinic in Pasadena, California. A graduate of Baylor University, she earned her PhD at the University of Southern California, where her research addressed attachment, childrearing and interpersonal neurobiology. With Daniel J. Siegel she co-wrote The Whole-Brain Child, No-Drama Discipline and The Yes Brain, works that apply brain science to parenting and child development.
Details
- 2018
- Bantam
- Bantam
- 9780399594663