Includes bibliography and index.

Introduction: mind, brain, and experience --M︣emory --A︣ttachment --E︣motion --R︣epresentations: modes of processing and the construction of reality --S︣tates of mind: cohesion, subjective experience, and complex systems --S︣elf-regulation --I︣nterpersonal connection --I︣ntegration.

This book goes beyond the nature-nurture divisions that traditionally have constrained much of our thinking about development, exploring the role of interpersonal relationships in forging key connections in the brain. Daniel J. Siegel presents a groundbreaking new way of thinking about the emergence of the human mind - the process by which each of us becomes a feeling, thinking, remembering individual. Illuminating how and why neurobiology matters, this book is essential reading for clinicians, educators, researchers, and students interested in human experience and development across the life span.