Healing Moments in Psychotherapy

by Daniel J. Siegel M.D., Marion F. Solomon Ph.D.

Overview

Distinguished clinicians explain what lies at the heart of change in effective psychotherapy.

A wide range of distinguished scientists and clinicians discuss the nature of change in the therapeutic process. Jaak Panksepp, Ian McGilchrist, Ruth Lanius, Francine Shapiro, and other luminaries offer readers a powerful journey through mindful awareness, neural integration, affective neuroscience, and therapeutic presence to reveal the transformational nature of therapy.

Healing Moments in Psychotherapy dives deep into the art and science of healing from the perspective of a variety of clinical approaches and scientific viewpoints, including interpersonal neurobiology. Through the voices of a dozen clinicians and scientists presenting their combined experiences and wisdom, it serves as a window into the process of healing. Practical examples and empowering research data support the ways in which therapeutic relationships can help catalyze health and restore wellness within psychotherapy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393707625
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	11/18/2013
Series:	Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Noted neuropsychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, MD, is clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute in LA. He is founding editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology.

Marion Solomon, PhD, is a lecturer at the David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry at UCLA. She is co-editor with Dan Siegel of several books in the IPNB Series, including Healing Trauma and How People Change.

Editorial Reviews

"This book moves away from the dominant concern with categories and prediction of attachment theory to focus on co-creative, regulatory, multi-leveled meaning-making processes between individuals. From Pat Ogden’s brilliant discussion of enactments and bodily processes to Jaak Panksepp’s neurobiological insights into emotion, Daniel Hughes’s two-minded mindfulness, and Diana Fosha’s emotional therapeutic tilt, Solomon and Siegel have embodied and enacted the new interpersonal neurobiology, integrating theory and therapeutic practice."

Ed Tronick

"[A] pick for any therapist who would understand the latest insights on neuroscience and therapy. . . . [A] powerful survey, highly recommended for professionals."

Midwest Book Review

"This book is a hopeful example of how we can emerge from holding discrete isolated views of different psychotherapies to the more interesting position of valuing each view for what it can offer, as one perspective, in the search to understand the most complex and meaningful aspect of being human—the human mind. . . . I would highly recommend it to physicians and patients, anyone who works with trauma, academicians, theoreticians, philosophers, and scientists."

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

"In this rich volume, Daniel J. Siegel and Marion Solomon bring together a fascinating group of leading thinkers, scientists, and clinicians to link such potent themes as emotion, mindfulness, attachment, and neuroscience into an integrated whole. Healing Moments in Psychotherapy is supremely relevant to the working therapist who wants to understand the theory and science behind good practice."

Sue Johnson

"Healing Moments in Psychotherapy is a wonderful collection of essays from a well-integrated, multidisciplinary team of therapists and scientists, exploring the powerful capacity of human interactions to effect growth and change. A must-read."

Bessel van der Kolk