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The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being

Daniel J. Siegel

From the author of the internationally-acclaimed best-selling text The Developing Mind, and esteemed leader and educator in the field of mental health, comes the first book ever to integrate neuroscience research with the ancient art of mindfulness. The result is a groundbreaking approach to not simply mental health, but life in general, which shows readers how personal awareness and attunement can actually stimulate emotional circuits in the brain, leading to a host of physiological benefits, including greater well-being, resilience, emotional balance, and improved cardiac and immune function. For clinicians and laypeople alike, Siegel's illuminating discussions of the power of the focused mind provide a wealth of ideas that can transform our lives and deepen our connections with others, and with ourselves.

Book Details

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: Apr 17th, 2007
  • Pages: 416
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.46in - 6.08in - 1.11in - 1.84lb
  • EAN: 9780393704709
  • Categories: Physiological PsychologyMindfulness & Meditation

About the Author

Siegel, Daniel J.: - Noted neuropsychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, MD is the Co-Founder of Mind Your Brain in Santa Monica, California, the Founder and Director of Education of the Mindsight Institute, and Founding Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA, where he was also Co-Principal Investigator of the Center for Culture, Brain and Development and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine. An award-winning educator, Dr. Siegel is the author of five New York Times bestsellers and over fifteen other books which have been translated into over forty languages. As the founding editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology ("IPNB"), he has overseen the publication of over one hundred books in the transdisciplinary IPNB framework which focuses on the mind and mental health.

Praise for this book

[E]xtremely informative and helpful, providing deep insights into the process of mindful awareness....timely and useful.-- "Journal of Clinical Psychiatry"
Siegel has both a meticulous understanding of the roles of different parts of the brain and an intimate relationship with mindfulness. . . . [I]nsightful proposals, bolstered by preliminary research data, for how mindful awareness might engage parts of the brain in novel ways and lead to permanent neurological changes. His speculations are interesting in and of themselves, and they also may provide neuroscientists with ideas for experiments that could test the effects of mindfulness on the brain. . . . [A]n exciting glimpse of into an uncharted territory of neuroscience.-- "Scientific American Mind"