The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

Dr. Siegel's latest work, The Mindful Therapist, is an excellent, unique resource for therapists. Throughout my training as a therapist, I have read many books about the various aspects involved in the therapeutic process, however, this is the first book I have found that addresses what therapists can do, and need to do, on a personal level to be most helpful in the therapeutic process. While The Mindful Therapist seems to be written as a guide for clinicians, this information is applicable to anyone who wants to explore themselves and their relationships in greater depth. In this book, Dr. Siegel provides an incredible amount of information that allows the reader to understand the physiological and psychological processes as well as how past experiences contribute to our present relationships. In addition, his elegant, creative style allows for a flowing, engaging read.Thank you, Dr. Siegel, for this wonderful and incredibly useful resource!

Stick with this book. It vacillates between highly scientific (over my head at more times than one) and every-day experiences and applications. The book continuously reviews and builds upon itself, so by the end, I had taken away much more than I realized, and was understanding things I hadn’t understood the first time they were covered. After finishing this book, I am finding myself connecting to my clients in deeper ways, even without any special effort to do so.

This is the kind of book every therapist will find useful, besides his or her theoretical orientation. Siegel brilliantly describes how those abilities for good therapy are utterly aligned with brain functions. The book is filled with plenty of exercices to develop and improve them. I'm glad to find that concepts developed from the psychological theories, such as "resonance", "attunemet", "countertransference", "contact", "organ sensation", etc can be re-defined and confirmed in the neurobiological investigation. One can see the work of a very experienced therapist, speaking about those details and specific stuff of a therapy process, detached from any theoretical abstractions - common ground in the literature of this field. It's easy to think that Interpersonal Neurobiology is becoming the roots for the future of psychoterapy.Absolutelly recomended!!!

This is Insightful to the self and integration of others! Would reccomend this book, it I an easy and intresting to read!

I have become a big fan of Daniel Siegel's. Since reading Parenting From The Inside Out, I have read almost all of his books as I am counselor for youth and adults and do a great deal of trauma work as well. I am an EMDR therapist and find this book and his other "Mindsight" to be hugely helpful to giving the necessary resources to my clients. I received my advanced certification for EMDR recently and found many of the work to be centered around the same principles.While this concept of "Theory of the Mind" or "Reflective function" has been around for years, Seigel does a great job of giving us practical tools to promote wellness and integration. I love this book.

The book is a guide to the mindfulness paradigm, with rich details on processes and concepts.

I think maybe "theoretical" would be the right word to describe this book...it loses me quickly sometimes. But the author is pretty friendly and I can tell he is trying not to lose me. I'm reading it for class. It presents mindfulness in an unbiased way. Each chapter explains the concept in question in both a brain centered ("brain basics") way and a mindsight-centered way (from Siegel's other books). He shows the science behind why psychotherapy works. Good read if you have the time to read it slowly.

I don't believe it but, I found the exercises Dr. Siegel has put in this book, I've been doing for a long time. I've always been told I should be a therapists. Now I know I why. He has shown me well all can tap into understanding the mind and the psychological workings. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to tap in and have understanding, not only of oneself, but others too. Thanks to this book, I am going to peruse psychology as far as I can.

This is a very valuable handbook for therapists dealing everyday with the wounded of mind and spirit in our world. It provides a clearly set out theoretical framework based on recent developments in neuroscience (and carefully noting where these are still more speculative than established) as well as a lifetime of clinical practice.Using a simple visual model of a plane on the x axis - or for the mathematically uncomfortable, let us say a suspended piece of wood, he shows how we can all move quickly from that plane of possibility up any one of many peaks to certainty of action, with a corresponding physical response below the plane (wood). When we reach the peak, we act in one specific way. If we move too quickly from plane to peak, we jump to conclusions, and are not open to other possibilities. Our capacity to see where our clients may be coming from may be blinded by our sitting on one summit far from their consciousness. He reminds us that there is no 'immaculate perception', that we all see things through our own lens of experience and training, but that we can by specific training develop our capacities to be more attuned and open to others' consciousness by better understanding and regulating ourselves.He introduces a series of mindfulness exercises to be practices with the book, as he takes us through each aspect of development of mindsight - how we sense and shape energy and information flow in our lives, outlining each exercise, its relationship to a specific skill to be developed and the brain science which may underpin what is happening.It is written clearly and the illustrations are good (I have the Kindle edition).I will be reading and rereading this book. Buy it!

It is happening right now in the universities of America the neurosciences are comfirming the wisdom of the medittion techiques of the ancient sages. This is all about the practise and the attitude that foster a free and happy living.

Great book and a good read

Every therapist should have a copy of It.

A MUST read for social workers, psychologists, and therapists. Dan is a genius. 10/10 recommend, worth every penny.