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Dr. Dan Siegel - The Mind Is Broader Than The Brain
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Dr. Dan Siegel (IG: @drdansiegel) is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. He is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute which focuses on the development of mindsight and teaches insight, empathy, and integration in individuals, families and communities.
Dan has published extensively for both professional and lay audiences. He has five New York Times bestselling books.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How Dan became fascinated with the mind
- What is mindsight?
- Applying mindsight to medical training
- When you shut off your mindsight circuits, you shut off your empathy
- The 5 parts to empathy
- Active versus passive compassion
- What leads to empathy fatigue?
- The connection between the mind and the brain
- What is interpersonal neurobiology?
- The mind is broader than the brain and bigger than the body
- The brain in your head is the third brain
- Me + We = MWe
- The 9 domains of integration aka The Wheel of Awareness
- The best predictor of health, happiness & longevity is your relationships
- How to live a more integrative life
- Building inner resilience
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Dr. Dan Siegel - Mindsight (book)
Edward O. Wilson - Consilience (book)
Susan Harter - The Construction Of The Self (book)
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