The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration

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.

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.

Tour de force! Best advanced mindfulness text I have seen. Not just for therapists. Must have a high tolerance for relevant brain function and neuro research. But, even if that is not your cup of tea it is so worth the investment for unpacking the nuances and potential of sophisticated mindfulness practice well beyond the vast majority of teaching available. GREAT book for leaders of all kinds, both self-leadership and leading others. A unique. powerful, well-developed, integrated approach. Highly recommended.

Well done in introducing mindfulness into clinical practice. One of the best articulations about that which is so simple.

Dr. Siegel is an individual who has transcended the mere mechanics of the clinical setting, making for a more meaningful and poignant experience in our daily lives through the use of what he calls Mindfulness. His articulation of the process of engaging with another person in a mindful fashion is both insightful and carefully nuanced. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in enriching the clinical experience through the practice of Mindfulness.

I have worked as a therapist for many years and this is possbility one of the best text books i have read on the theraputic encounter.If you are a therapist and have not read this book, i highly recommend it. It does a great job of describing why psychotherapy works and what the therapist needs to do to get it to work.If you are not a therapist it may be a little too much unless you have done a great deal of reading in this area.

I am a therapist and I was looking for books about mindfulness for clients when I came across this book. I was excited because I really value mindfulness-based therapy, and mindfulness in general. I have not finished it yet, but so far so good. I think that it is a great resource for mental health professionals who are already practicing mindfulness, as well as those interested in it.

Dan Siegel does a great job explaining what you have experienced as a guide/therapist if you have been incorporating your own mindful practice. This book simply supports the idea of walking your talk and not just giving guidance to others. The depth of your work will be richer and the results quicker when you are able to apply the simple mindful principals to your own life and work.

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 found Dan Siegel's book beautifully written and as a senior trainee Gestalt psychotherapist, I find it confirming of my work and supportive to my practice.

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.

Loved this. Siegel is genius 🤓

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Thank u brilliant book

Essential reading for all healthcare students and ongoing reflection with deep learning. Common sense with compassion and experience, based on neuro-biological evidence and knowledge.

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Excellent and insightful read

Absolutely loved it!

Siegel does make it clear that therapists must understand their own processes before they can be of any help to others. a critical point in the helping professions these days!

An excellent resource for the elementary counselling office! This is a book I keep in my personal library. Very informative.

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

I am learning a lot from this book, some of it is a bit of a struggle to understand but it gets better as you get farther into the book.