Interpersonal Neurobiology: The Social Brain and the Embodied Relational Mind – Daniel Siegel, MD

This presentation will provide an overview of the field of Interpersonal Neurobiology and its view of the mind as an embodied and relational process that regulates the flow of energy and information.  This perspective of a mind broader than the brain and bigger than the body will be contrasted to studies of neuroscience, and in particular to views of the social brain.  Is mind simply an “output of brain firing” as is so often stated?  Or is the mind and its several facets of subjective experience, consciousness, information processing, and self-organization actually part of a system that includes the brain in the head, but extends far beyond that skull-encased organ of the body? 

Course Objectives

1. Name four ways the brain changes in response to experience
2. Describe nine domains of integration 
3. Outline how traumatic experiences are uniquely stored in memory and ways in which those memories can become integrated with trauma resolution   
4. Name three applications of attachment theory in assessment of developmental trauma  
5. Identify chaotic and rigid states as examples of impaired integration and well-being 
6. Define the mind and outline how mind is different from brain 
7. Outline four ways in which quantum physics may be relevant for understanding mind as an emergent property of energy flow 
8. Discuss the nature of time and how an “arrow of time” may be present in some facets of mind but absent in others 

Continuing Education Information

Kaiser Permanente Northern California Mental Health Training Programs is approved by the California Psychological Association to provide continuing professional education for psychologists. Kaiser Permanente Northern California Mental Health Training Programs maintains responsibility for this program and its content. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences recognizes the California Psychological Association’s continuing education credits for use by their licensees. 

Kaiser Permanente Northern California Mental Health Training Programs designate this live activity for 4.0 hours continuing education credits for the above-identified licensed professionals