Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
by Daniel J. Siegel M. D.
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"What is the mind? What is the experience of the self truly made of? How does the mind differ from the brain? Though the mind's contents--its emotions, thoughts, and memories--are often described, the essence of mind is rarely, if ever, defined. In this book, noted neuropsychiatrist and New York Times best-selling author Daniel J. Siegel, MD, uses his characteristic sensitivity and interdisciplinary background to offer a definition of the mind that illuminates the how, what, when, where, and show more even why of who we are, of what the mind is, and what the mind's self has the potential to become. MIND takes the reader on a deep personal and scientific journey into consciousness, subjective experience, and information processing, uncovering the mind's self-organizational properties that emerge from both the body and the relationships we have with one another, and with the world around us. While making a wide range of sciences accessible and exciting--from neurobiology to quantum physics, anthropology to psychology--this book offers an experience that addresses some of our most pressing personal and global questions about identity, connection, and the cultivation of well-being in our lives,"--Amazon.com. show lessTags
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New agey twaddle. Whole paragraphs that don't mean anything at all and are just a word salad - or can mean anything you want them to mean. To read about a similar idea of the mind being outside the brain but well reasoned and explained read "Consciousness and the Social Brain" by Michael Graziano.
I stopped at page 70. Please, don't waste your time reading this book.
A few other GOODREADS reviews sum up this book well:
Hunter Johnson did not like it and said, "There is probably a good three-page essay in here about the mind (in the way the book is marketed), but it was inextricable from the surrounding memoir plus self-help pop psychology."
Paul did not like it and said, "New agey twaddle. Whole paragraphs that don't mean anything at all and are just a word salad - or can mean anything you want them to mean."
A few other GOODREADS reviews sum up this book well:
Hunter Johnson did not like it and said, "There is probably a good three-page essay in here about the mind (in the way the book is marketed), but it was inextricable from the surrounding memoir plus self-help pop psychology."
Paul did not like it and said, "New agey twaddle. Whole paragraphs that don't mean anything at all and are just a word salad - or can mean anything you want them to mean."
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Daniel J. Siegel was born on September 2, 1957. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and executive director of the Mindsight Institute. He received a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his post-graduate medical education at UCLA. His training is in pediatrics and child, adolescent, and adult show more psychiatry. Siegel was the recipient of the UCLA psychiatry department's teaching award and several honorary fellowships for his work as director of UCLA's training program in child psychiatry and the Infant and Preschool Service at UCLA. He is the author of several books on parenting and child development including The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being, The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience, Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, and Parenting from the Inside Out, which he co-wrote with Mary Hartzell. Siegel is known as a mindfulness expert and for his work developing the field of Interpersonal Neurobiology which is an interdisciplinary view of life experience. He is the author of Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence--The Groundbreaking Meditation Practice. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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