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From a pioneer in the field of mental health comes a groundbreaking book on the healing power of "mindsight," the potent skill that allows you to make positive changes in your brain–and in your life.

Foreword by Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence

• Is there a memory that torments you, or an irrational fear you can't shake?
• Do you sometimes become unreasonably angry or upset and find it hard to calm down?
• Do you ever wonder why you can't stop behaving the way you do, no matter how hard you try?
• Are you and your child (or parent, partner, or boss) locked in a seemingly inevitable pattern of conflict?

What if you could escape traps like these and live a fuller, richer, happier life? This isn't mere speculation but the result of twenty-five years of careful hands-on clinical work by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. A Harvard-trained physician, Dr. Siegel is one of the revolutionary global innovators in the integration of brain science into the practice of psychotherapy. Using case histories from his practice, he shows how, by following the proper steps, nearly everyone can learn how to focus their attention on the internal world of the mind in a way that will literally change the wiring and architecture of their brain.

Through his synthesis of a broad range of scientific research with applications to everyday life, Dr. Siegel has developed novel approaches that have helped hundreds of patients. And now he has written the first book that will help all of us understand the potential we have to create our own lives. Showing us mindsight in action, Dr. Siegel describes

• a sixteen-year-old boy with bipolar disorder who uses meditation and other techniques instead of drugs to calm the emotional storms that made him suicidal
• a woman paralyzed by anxiety, who uses mindsight to discover, in an unconscious memory of a childhood accident, the source of her dread
• a physician–the author himself–who pays attention to his intuition, which he experiences as a "vague, uneasy feeling in my belly, a gnawing restlessness in my heart and my gut," and tracks down a patient who could have gone deaf because of an inaccurately written prescription for an ear infection
• a twelve-year-old girl with OCD who learns a meditation that is "like watching myself from outside myself" and, using a form of internal dialogue, is able to stop the compulsive behaviors that have been tormenting her

These and many other extraordinary stories illustrate how mindsight can help us master our emotions, heal our relationships, and reach our fullest potential.
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Harness the healing power of “mindsight” a potent skill for making positive changes in your brain.

Publishers Weekly says, An exciting exploration of how a troubles mind can right itself.

With a foreword from Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence

Mary Pipher, PhD says, Will forever change the way we understand ourselves and our relationships.

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“In his new, wise, and utterly approachable book, Dr. Siegel uses beautiful and often remarkable case histories to show us how we can change our minds, brains, relationships, and even the course of certain mental illnesses.”—Norman Doidge, M.D., author of The Brain That Changes Itself

“Will forever change the way we understand ourselves and our relationships.”—Mary Pipher, Ph.D., author of
Reviving Ophelia and Seeking Peace

“Accessible and visionary,
Mindsight is bound to be a classic.”—Jack Kornfield, author of The Wise Heart
 
“[A] revolutionary book.” —
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“Utterly compelling . . . life-altering.”—Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of
Wherever You Go, There You Are
 
“An exciting exploration of how a troubled mind can right itself.”—
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Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., is clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, the founding co-director of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Siegel is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestsellers Brainstorm, Mind, and, with Tina Payne Bryson, The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline. He is also the author of the bestsellers Mindsight and, with Mary Hartzell, Parenting from the Inside Out. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, with welcome visits from their adult son and daughter.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bantam; Reprint edition (December 28, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0553386395
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0553386394
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.46 x 0.69 x 8.22 inches
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Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. He is currently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, founding co-director of UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, founding co-investigator at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain and Development, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational center devoted to promoting insight, compassion, and empathy in individuals, families, institutions, and communities.

Dr. Siegel’s psychotherapy practice spans thirty years, and he has published extensively for the professional audience. He serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which includes over 70 textbooks. Dr. Siegel’s books include his five New York Times bestsellers: Aware: The science and practice of presence, Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human, and two books with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.: The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline. His other books include: The Power of Showing Up and The Yes Brain (also with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.), The Developing Mind, The Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology, Mindsight, The Mindful Brain, The Mindful Therapist, and Parenting from the Inside Out (with Mary Hartzell, M.Ed.). He has been invited to lecture for the King of Thailand, Pope John Paul II, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Google University, and TEDx.

For more information about his educational programs and resources, please visit: www.DrDanSiegel.com and www.mindsightinstitute.com.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2016
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    “Within each of us there is an internal mental world—what I have come to think of as the sea inside—that is a wonderfully rich place, filled with thoughts and feelings, memories and dreams, hopes and wishes. Of course it can also be a turbulent place, where we experience the dark side of all those wonderful feelings and thoughts—fears, sorrows, dreads, regrets, nightmares. When this inner sea seems to crash in on us, threatening to drag us down below to the dark depths, it can make us feel as if we are drowning. Who among us has not at one time or another felt overwhelmed by the sensations from within our own minds? Sometimes these feelings are just a passing thing—a bad day at work, a fight with someone we love, an attack of nerves about a test we have to take or a presentation we have to give, or just an inexplicable case of the blues for a day or two. But sometimes they seem to be something much more intractable, so much part of the very essence of who we are that it may not even occur to us that we can change them. This is where the skill that I have called “mindsight” comes in, for mindsight, once mastered, is a truly transformational tool. Mindsight has the potential to free us from patterns of mind that are getting in the way of living our lives to the fullest.”

    ~ Dan Siegel from Mindsight

    Dan Siegel is one of the world’s leading neuroscientists and psychotherapists. A Harvard Medical School graduate and Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA Medical School, he founded the field of “Interpersonal Neurobiology.”

    He’s brilliant (!) and delivers his wisdom in a captivating, poetic style.

    He’s also an incredibly *good* human being. We connected for the first time years ago and I was immediately captured by his profound embodiment of the truths he teaches—a big heart and wonderful, loving presence matched with a deep sense of personal humility.

    This book is fantastic. The central theme is that we have the capacity to observe and shape our own minds—an ability Dan calls “mindsight.” In short, the quality of our lives is shaped by our ability to cultivate our mindsight.

    Let's jump in and explore some of my favorite Big Ideas:

    1. What Is Mindsight? - It's awesome. Seriously.
    2. Our Seventh Sense - 5 + 1 + 1.
    3. Well-Being - The three fundamentals principles.
    4. Integration - = Flexible + free.
    5. River of Integration - Two banks: Rigidity + chaos.

    Here’s to the diligent, patient, persistent effort required to push our consciousness up the hill so we can watch it roll down into the valley of coherence!

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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2012
    In Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, Polonius offers this advice to his son Alerts before his departure for college:

    "This above all: to thine own self be true,
    And it must follow, as the night the day,

    Thou canst not then be false to any man."

    Urging the young man to be true to himself is sound advice but presupposes that Laertes knows who he is. For most of us, self-knowledge is immensely difficult to obtain and even more difficult to accept. However, Socrates insists that the unexamined life is not worth living. All this is relevant to Daniel Siegel's latest book, Mindsight, in which he discusses the core principles and potential significance of "the new science of personal transformation," a process during which the brain creates itself or increases its capabilities "to promote physical, psychological, and interpersonal well-being."

    As Daniel Goleman correctly observes in an uncommonly enlightening Foreword, "Daniel Siegel's theory of mindsight -- the brain's capacity for both insight and empathy...makes sense for us out of the cluttered confusions of our sometimes maddening and messy emotions...Self-awareness and empathy are (along with self-mastery and social skills) domains of human ability essential for success in life...Of these four skills, self-awareness lays the foundation for the rest."

    There are several concepts or themes central to Siegel's narrative. For example, "The Triangle of Well-Being" reveals three aspects of our lives (i.e. relationships, mind, and brain) that "form the three mutual influencing points of the Triangle of Well-Bring." Mindsight enables us to become aware of, indeed monitor and modify "the flow of energy and information within the Triangle of Well-Being." Two others are "A Window of Tolerance" (see Pages 137-139 and 269-270) and "The Wheel of Awareness" (91-93 and 95-96). Siegel explains why Goleman is dead-on: "self-awareness lays the foundation for the rest." That is not to suggest, however, that one's self-awareness must be total before the expanded and enlightened mindsight can be applied. There are several reasons why I think this is so. Here are the two I think are most important: first, all human beings change (for better or worse) as does the potential self-knowledge to be obtained; the process of self-examination to which Socrates refers is endless until death. My second reason is that, over time, during our personal transformation, others will interact with us differently as will we with them and adjustments must be made, thereby increasing the number and quality of opportunities for gaining new, valuable insights about ourselves, of course, but also about human nature.

    These are among the dozens of passages that caught my eye:

    o "Hand Model of the Brain" (Pages 14-22)
    o "The Mechanism of Mindlessness" (26-30)
    o "What Fires Together, Wires Together" (40-43)
    o "A healthy Mind: Complexity and Self-Organization (68-69)
    o "A Mindful Approach to Changing the Mind" (83-84)
    o "Awareness Training and Stabilizing the Mind" (93-98)
    o "Building Inner Resources" (135-137)
    o "Patterns of Attachment" (167-171)
    o "An Unresolved and Disorganized Mind" (182-188)
    o "Top-Down and Bottom-Up" (200-203)
    o "Making Sense of the Past to Free the Present" (217-220)

    Then in the Appendix, I especially appreciate the provision of "a dozen basic concepts and related terms and ideas that form a foundation for our approach of mindsight, integration, and well-being" (267-270) followed by extensively annotated Notes (271-300). When review key points later, I would begin with these two sections.

    No brief commentary such as mind can possibly do full justice to the scope and depth of material that Siegel provides in this volume. I conclude with three points that are of special importance to me and will be, perhaps, to many others who read this brilliant book. First, our mind is what the brain does and the brain (viewed as a muscle) can be expanded and strengthened, with that process limited only by the nature and extent of our commitment to it. Second, the material Siegel provides has compelling and substantial importance to improving child development within and beyond their schools. Finally, I agree with Daniel Siegel that mindsight can allow us to "see the internal workings of our own minds," to be sure, but it can also help us to increase our understanding and appreciation others and -- through meaningful interaction with them -- increase their understanding and appreciation of us. That is indeed a compelling vision.
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  • Roula Haddad
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very enriching !
    Reviewed in France on August 10, 2024
    I just finished this book and want to say it’s amazing, super enriching with great real examples from author’s own practice. I even think would read it again as much as enriching it is! A must read for psychology students in particular, might be a difficult one for a reader who has no notion of psychology at all.
  • H. K. KILGOUR
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 2, 2024
    Wonderful to see an approach based on neuro physiology helping people. I found this book fascinating and surprisingly educationally based
  • Mehnaz Amjad
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for anyone interested in understanding mind
    Reviewed in India on August 30, 2023
    A wonderful book,with deep insights and knowledge of the mind. The narration opens to a common humanity we all share and how to find a way out of our problems
  • Susana Abigail Torres
    5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read
    Reviewed in Mexico on February 22, 2020
    It is a good book for people interested in learning about themselves, personal growth and understanding others. It's easy to read including examples for each developing topic. Good starting point with next step guidance.
  • boatfan
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great paradigm for understanding mental health
    Reviewed in Canada on January 7, 2019
    This is a great book. Of all the ones I read on a similar subject, this one excels at pulling everything together into a cohesive paradigm and makes the link to brain biology. It gives case studies, which not only make riveting reading, but also often one needs to understand what is pathological to grasp what is healthy and how one can get there incrementally. Dan Siegel has managed to not only make a complex subject accessible but does it in a style that made me want to keep reading.

    I had expected a bit more of a self help book; understanding in of itself isn't even half what is needed to obtain mental health. The power of meditation has been proven elsewhere, but the book is pretty brief on not only the methodology, but also on how to keep it going in the face of lack of motivation. The book seems to suggest that more is necessary, i.e. a therapist, not only for deciding which insights a suffering person needs at which point in time, but also to provide long term support. This is pretty difficult in real life, with health plans paying a few therapist sessions at best and therapists being horribly booked up.

    Maybe the "how to" book that is based on mindsight theory is already written; I just have to find it.