Daniel J. Siegel, MD, an internationally acclaimed author, award-winning educator, and renowned child psychiatrist, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine of the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is the founding codirector of the Mindful Awareness Research Center. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a recipient of several honorary fellowships. He is also 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 recent books include Parenting from the Inside Out, The Whole-Brain Child, Brainstorm, The Yes Brain, The Power of Showing Up, Mind, and Aware.

Introduction. "What Is the Mind, Anyway?": An Interpersonal Neurobiology Perspective
1. The Embodied Brain, Awareness, and the Nature of Energy
2. States of Mind: Cohesion, Subjective Experience, and Complex Systems
3. Memory and Narrative
4. Attachment and a Sense of Self
5. Emotion as Shifts in Integration
6. Representations and Mental Reality: Modes of Processing and the Construction of Experience
7. Regulation and Coherence
8. Interpersonal Connection and the Relational Mind
9. Integration Within and Between
10. Belonging, "Self," and an Integrated Identity as Me plus We = MWe: A Framework for Cultivating Integration
Glossary
Notes
References
Index