Healing Moments in Psychotherapy

"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 humanthe 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 "[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 "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, author of the best-selling book Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love; developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples "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, MD, Medical Director, The Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute; Co-Director, National Complex Trauma Treatment Network; Professor, Boston University School of Medicine "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 Ogdens brilliant discussion of enactments and bodily processes to Jaak Panksepps neurobiological insights into emotion, Daniel Hughess two-minded mindfulness, and Diana Foshas emotional therapeutic tilt, Solomon and Siegel have embodied and enacted the new interpersonal neurobiology, integrating theory and therapeutic practice." -- Ed Tronick, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts; Lecturer, Harvard Medical School

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.