ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY HUMANIST GALAXY OF SECULAR SCIENCE STARS DANIEL J. SIEGEL August 23, 2020 MINDSIGHT: The New Science of Personal Transformation. by Daniel J. Siegel. Bantam Books/Random House, 2010 (vii-xviii, 314 pages) BOOK OUTLINE FORWORD BY DANIEL GOLDMAN (vii-viii) INTRODUCTION — Diving into the Sea Inside (xi-xviii) PART 1 — THE PATH TO WELL BEING: Mindsight Illuminated (1-) 1) A BROKEN BRAIN, A LOST SOUL — The triangle of well-being (3-13) note = Minding the brain — the brain in the palm of your hand (14-22) 2) CREPES OF WRATH — Mindsight lost and found (23-37) note = Minding the brain: neuroplasticity in a nutshell (38-44) 3) LEAVING THE ETHER DOME — Where is the mind? (45-58) note = Minding the brain — riding the resonance circuits (64-63) 4) THE COMPLEXITY CHOIR --- Discovering the harmony of health (64-76) PART 2 — THE POWER TO CHANGE: Mindsight in action (76-254) 5) A ROLLER-COASTER MIND — Strengthening the hub of awareness (79-101) 6) HALF A BRAIN IN HIDING — Balancing left and right (102-119) 7) CUT OFF FROM THE NECK DOWN — Reconnecting the mind and the body (120-144) 8) PRISONERS OF THE PAST — Memory, trauma, and recovery (145-165) 9) MAKING SENSE OF OUR LIVES — Attachment and the storytelling brain (166-189) 10) OUR MULTIPLE SELVES — Getting in touch with the core (190-209) 11) THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF "WE" --- Becoming advocates for one another (210-231) 12) TIME AND TIDES — Confronting uncertainty and mortality (232-254) EPILOGUE — WIDENING THE CIRCLE: Expanding the Self (255-261) [1] Breathing life across the domains of integration (255-257) [2] Me vs. them (257-259) [3] Expanding identity (259-260) [4] Seeing clearly (260-261) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (263-265) APPENDIX (267-270) NOTES (271-300) INDEX (301-314) Selected Topics Highlighted: Addiction Amygdala Anger Anterior cingulate cortex Anxiety Attachment Attention Attunement Autonomic nervous system Awareness Bipolar disorder Blood Body Brain Brainstem Breath, focus on Cerebral cortex Childhood Children Communication Death Depression Drugs Emotions Empathy Energy Epigenesis Evolution Exercise Expertience Eye contact Facial expression Family life Fear Fight-flight-freeze responses Flexibility Focus Freedom Friends Frustration Future, planning and prediction of Genes Grief Happiness Healing Hearing Heart Heart rate Hippocampus Hormones Human behavior Illness Impulses Independence Information Insight Insight meditation Insula cortex Integration Intelligence Interoception Interpersonal neurobiology Intuition Irritability Isolation Journal writing Kindness Life Limbic system Love Lungs Mathematics Me Medications Medicine Meditation Memory Mental health Mind Mindfulness Minding the brain Mindsight Mindsight maps Minds of others Mirrror neuron system (MNS) Mood Moral awareness Music Narrative Nervous system Neurochemicals Neurogenesis Neurons Neuroplasticity Neuroscience Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) Openess Pain Panic attacks Parrents Perception Personality Pets Pituitary gland Play Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Prefrontal cortex Psychiatry Psychology Psychotherapy Reactivity Reading Receptivity Reflection Relationships Relaxation Resonance circuitry Respiration Sadness Self, see Me Self-talk (247-249) Senses Sexuality Shame Shyness Siblings SIFT (Sensation, Images, Feelings, Thoughts) Sleep Smell Smiling SNAG (Stimulate Neuronal Activation and Growth) Social interaction Speech Spinal cord Stability Stepparents Stomach sensations Stress Suicide Surgery Survival Synaptogenesis Systems Temperament Thought Time Touch Triangle of Well-Being Uncertainty Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex Vision Vitality Voice, tones of Walking meditation We We-maps Well-being We wheel of awareness Wheel of Aareness Window of Tolerance Wisdom Work Yoga You-maps ABOUT THE AUTHOR (unpaged at end) AUTHOR NOTE, SUMMARY, AND BOOK DESCRIPTION AUTHOR NOTE = Daniel J. Siegel has written many books that demonstrate how mindfulness can be integrated into modern brain science. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and executive director of the Mindsight Institute. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his post-graduate medical credentials at UCLA. He was the recipient of the UCLA psychiatry department's teaching award and honorary fellowships for his work as director of UCLA's training program in child psychiatry and the Infant and Preschool Service and is a mindfulness expert, working to develop the field of Interpersonal Neurobiology, which is an interdisciplinary view of life experience. Siegel is the author of several New York Times bestsellers including the two books featured on this website [1] THE MINDFUL BRAIN: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being published by W.W. Norton, 2007 (i-xx, 387 pages); and [2] MINDSIGHT: The New Science of Personal Transformation published by Bantam Books/Random House, 2010 (vii-xviii, 314 pages). Other bestsellers about parenting and child development include: [3] The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience; [4] Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain with Tina Payne Bryson; [5] The Whole-Brain Child; [6] No-Drama Discipline; [7] Parenting from the Inside Out, co-written with Mary Hartzell; and [8] Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence --- The Groundbreaking Meditation Practice. He lives in Los Angeles. SUMMARY = This book is both inspiring and informative since it offers exciting new proof that people are not hardwired to behave in certain ways. Instead, they have the ability to harness the power of their minds to resculpt the neural pathways of their brains. The foreword is by Daniel Goleman, author of the book, Emotional Intelligence. BOOK DESCRIPTION = This book integrates neuroscience research with the field of mental health. The potent skill "mindsight" allows you to make positive changes in your brain and in your life. Through his synthesis of a broad range of scientific research with applications to everyday life, Siegel has developed novel approaches to counseling. Now he has written the first book that will help all of us understand the potential we have to create our own lives. The book shows us mindsight in action as it explains how this new therapy can heal serious mental problems: 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 mental and emotional traps like these and live a fuller, richer, happier life? This isn't mere speculation but the result of several decades of careful hands-on clinical work by Siegel who 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. Many extraordinary stories illustrate how mindsight can help you master your emotions, heal your relationships, and reach yur fullest potential. EDITORIAL BOOK REVIEWS [1] 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. [2] Will forever change the way we understand ourselves and our relationships. -- Mary Pipher, Ph.D., author of Reviving Ophelia and Seeking Peace. [3] Accessible and visionary, Mindsight is bound to be a classic. -- Jack Kornfield, author of The Wise Heart. [4] A revolutionary book. -- The Boston Globe. [5] Utterly compelling... life-altering. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Wherever You Go, There You Are. [6] An exciting exploration of how a troubled mind can right itself. -- Publishers Weekly. Click or Tap to Return to Humanist Hub RETURN TO HUMANIST HUB OF SECULAR SCIENCE STARS produced by Infinite Interactive Ideas™