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

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.

One of the best lessons to keep with me is that Dr. Siegel is able to fit perfectly concepts and clinical facts as "laying on the same track" the attention focusing of being Mindful (attention) and the cultivation of Compassion (intention), something that for other authors seems to be a problem.With regard to other aspects of our daily task as therapists I do believe that Dr. Siegel has, once again, writen something easy and clear to be read, of great usefulness if we want to achieve the best of us during our work with clients and why not, out of the office too, a way of living.Olaf Holm

Los primeros capítulos te llevan a la comprensión de los elementos básicos para ser un terapeuta Mindfulness. Para un lector novato es necesario haber leído otros libros más sencillos del autor como Brain Storm o Mindfulness.Más adelante describe el proceso y los elementos en juego del enfoque terapéutico, el cual es aplicable en cualquier corriente. Este trabajo es un arte sobre el si mismo, más que una técnica o un método. Es una filosofía y un proceso de vida. Excelente lectura que en sí misma es terapéutica.

Dan Siegal's books alway linger with you long after the reading. He takes great care to lay out his position and has really powerful guidance for those who help others.He is possibly a little more cardigan wearing Californian hippie for my normal austere taste, but there is no doubt about the value of his work. He brings insight, and thankfully stops short of being 'new age'.If you want to avoid Deepak Chopra or Eckart Tolle, want your non-fiction to be actual 'non-fiction', but do want to explore mindfulness, intuition, well-being and consciousness then you will be safely tethered to earth and science with Dan Siegal.

This book came highly recommended to me. I wanted to love it, but frankly, it's not interesting and is just too hard to read. I was reading at an eleventh grade level in the third grade, so I am not stupid, but the frustration of getting through a page- let alone a chapter- kept me from knowing what it contains. I've picked it up several times thinking that maybe I was just not in the right frame of mind to accept what it had to offer. Each time I get the same reaction. If it were in an auditory form, it might be more palatable for meJust for fun, I ran a sample of the writing though a Flesch-Kincaid readability calculator and the sample scored an 18. That means that it's targeted to university graduates. Legalese tends to rate about a 10, so that will give you some idea of what you are in for. Even as a professional, I found it tedious and very hard to read. I don't want to struggle through anything, but will do it if it is entertaining and worthwhile. This just didn't do that for me.

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.

Being a mindful therapist, where thorough understanding of each component is truly best practice for out clients. Dr. Siegel delivers exactly what we strive for with every client we support. Beautifully written.

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!

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!

I'm working both on Mindfullness in another book so it's good to get another view ... So each of us are also therapists

I have given this book three stars as I just couldn't finish it. I just found it difficult to follow but this may well be my ignorance rather than the authors fault.

Excellent quality and value quickly dispatched.

Loved this. Siegel is genius 🤓