The Healing Power of Emotion

Daniel J. Siegel ist Professor für Psychiatrie an der School of Medicine der Universität von Kalifornien in Los Angeles und Direktor des Mindsight Institute. Seit einem Vierteljahrhundert erforscht der Harvard-Absolvent Wege, Erkenntnisse der Hirnforschung therapeutisch nutzbar zu machen. Nach einer Reihe vielbeachteter Veröffentlichungen legt er mit Die Alchemie der Gefühle die eindrucksvolle Quintessenz seiner Arbeit vor. Er lebt mit seiner Frau und seinen zwei Kindern in Los Angeles.Dr. Marion Solomon ist Dozentin an der David Geffen School der University of California (UCLA), Abteilung Psychiatrie, und Ausbildungsleiterin am Lifespan Learning Institute. Sie hat zahlreiche Bücher zum Thema Paartherapie geschrieben.

We are hardwired to connect with one another, and we connect through our emotions. Our brains, bodies, and minds are inseparable from the emotions that animate them.Normal human development relies on the cultivation of relationships with others to form and nurture the self-regulatory circuits that enable emotion to enrich, rather than enslave, our lives. And just as emotionally traumatic events can tear apart the fabric of family and psyche, the emotions can become powerful catalysts for the transformations that are at the heart of the healing process.In this book, the latest addition to the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, leading neuroscientists, developmental psychologists, therapy researchers, and clinicians illuminate how to regulate emotion in a healthy way. A variety of emotions, both positive and negative, are examined in detail, drawing on both research and clinical observations. The role of emotion in bodily regulation, dyadic connection, marital communication, play, well-being, health, creativity, and social engagement is explored. The Healing Power of Emotion offers fresh, exciting, original, and groundbreaking work from the leading figures studying and working with emotion today.Contributors include: Jaak Panksepp, Stephen W. Porges, Colwyn Trevarthen, Ed Tronick, Allan N. Schore, Daniel J. Siegel, Diana Fosha, Pat Ogden, Marion F. Solomon, Susan Johnson, and Dan Hughes.