Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology. an Integrative Handbook of the Mind

Description

The central concepts of the theory of interpersonal neurobiology.

Many fields have explored the nature of mental life from psychology to psychiatry, literature to linguistics. Yet no common “framework” where each of these important perspectives can be honored and integrated with one another has been created in which a person seeking their collective wisdom can find answers to some basic questions, such as, What is the purpose of life? Why are we here? How do we know things, how are we conscious of ourselves? What is the mind? What makes a mind healthy or unwell? And, perhaps most importantly: What is the connection among the mind, the brain, and our relationships with one another?

Our mental lives are profoundly relational. The interactions we have with one another shape our mental world. Yet as any neuroscientist will tell you, the mind is shaped by the firing patterns in the brain. And so how can we reconcile this tension—that the mind is both embodied and relational? Interpersonal Neurobiology is a way of thinking across this apparent conceptual divide.

This Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology is designed to aid in your personal and professional application of the interpersonal neurobiology approach to developing a healthy mind, an integrated brain, and empathic relationships. It is also designed to assist you in seeing the intricate foundations of interpersonal neurobiology as you read other books.

Contents

1. Mind
2. Relationships
3. Brain and Body
4. Triangle of Well-Being
5. Awareness
6. Mindful Awareness
7. Attention
8. Neuroplasticity
9. SNAG: “Neurons that fire together, wire together”
10. The Brain in the Palm of Your Hand
11. Spinal Cord and Lamina I
12. Brainstem
13. Limbic Area
14. Cortex
15. The Brain as a System
16. Integration
17. Health, Creativity, and The River of Integration
18. Integrative Communication
19. The Neurobiology of We
20. Attachment
21. Categories of Attachment
22. Mindsight
23. Attunement
24. Following Rupture with Repair
25. Time In and Mindful Awareness Practices
26. The Wheel of Awareness
27. Middle Prefrontal Functions
28. Energy and Information Flow
29. Plane of Possibility
30. Memory
31. Narrative
32. Emotion
32. Response Flexibility
33. Windows of Tolerance
34. Interpersonal Attunement Shapes Self-Regulation
35. States of Mind
36. Mental Activities and Representations
37. Mental Well-Being and the Healthy Mind Platter
38. Un-Health and Dis-Ease
39. Domains of Integration
40. Consciousness and Awareness: Plane of Possibility
41. Bilateral Integration
42. Vertical Integration
43. Memory Integration
44. Narrative Integration
45. State Integration
46. Interpersonal Integration
47. Temporal Integration
48. Transpirational Integration
49. Internal Education
50. From Me to We: An Expanded Self
51. Mind and Planet
52. Mind and Culture Reflections Nodal
Index