Daniel J. Siegel, MD

Neuroplasticity and Therapy: the function of relationship in neural integration - an interpersonal neurobiological approach Part 1 Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. Mindsight Institute

• An interdisciplinary approach – moving beyond a single- discipline view

Science > measurement > objectivity - V - Subjectivity

• Relationship • Mind • Brain

The linkage of differentiated parts

RELATIONSHIPS © Dr Daniel Siegel – Mind Your Brain Inc. A triangle of well-being and resilience MIND? BRAIN

RELATIONSHIPS © Dr Daniel Siegel – Mind Your Brain Inc. Neurons begin as skin cells

Nervous system Electro-chemical energy flow

By growing new neurons (synaptogenesis, neurogenesis) …

You can also laydown myelin (a fatty substance that forms a protective layer around the axon of the nerve cell)

Changes the regulation of gene expression

Activating – or not – epigenetic modulators

Glial cells (androcytes and astrocytes)

1. Subjective Experience

1. Subjective Experience 2. Consciousness

© Dr Daniel Siegel – Mind Your Brain Inc. What constitutes the mind? 1. Subjective Experience 2. Consciousness 3. Mind as an emergent property of energy and information flow patterns that is self-organising

An embodied and relational process that regulates the flow of energy and information

• Monitors (Observe, sense, perceive) • Modifies (Modify, alter, transform)

John Norcross found the presence, empathy, and openness to feedback of the therapist are crucial elements in therapeutic outcome in meta- analyses of psychotherapy research.

© Dr Daniel Siegel – Mind Your Brain Inc. Psychotherapy offers…. PART = important acronym • Presence Capacity to receive energy and information flow patterns without being distorted by our own information machine. Getting beneath the filters of prior learning.

PART Presence + Attunement + Resonance = conditions of Trust

Brain = Electro-chemical energy patterns

Relationships = Sharing of energy and information flow