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The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide To Mindsight And Neural Integration (2010)

by Daniel J. Siegel(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0393706451 (ISBN13: 9780393706451)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: Take your time in reading this book, you'll get more out of it if you do the exercises and the guided meditations he encourages. Also, have a patience for his love of acronyms. He constantly repeats these so you don't have to remember them,, but he's always mentioning them! Throughout the book Siegel discusses the brain mechanisms that are at play when one is being mindful. The book's premise is encouraging us to live examined and reflective lives through mindfulness. Towards the end he begins to step into the interpersonal realm, of neurobiology and mindfulness. I found the early parts of this helpful, but it becomes watered down, particularly when he gets to the community level. I'm not sure if community movements, or sense of community has been studied from a neuropsych... moreological position. I hope Siegel goes in this direction.
review 2: This was required reading in one of my graduate classes in family therapy, and I am SO thankful it was! Of all the therapy books I have read, this is still the most helpful and inspiring. I think it makes a point that training programs often forget to emphasize- that is,to be the best therapist you can be, you have to apply the principles of presence and self-care to your own life. So often my training focused on "helping the client" which ignores the truth that you cannot take a client where you will not go yourself. To truly help your clients, you have to start with yourself. This book opens up that conversation and showed me as a newbie therapist how to begin working on awareness and presence in the therapy room, and then take those skills and work on continuing them outside the therapy room in my own day-to-day life. It also encouraged me to work on accepting the process of therapy and my ongoing development as a therapist... and that we should always be growing and learning as therapists, there is no "end goal" where you suddenly have "arrived" as a perfect therapist. This book was beautiful and inspiring for me, I highly recommend it to all therapists. less

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