A review by uneasyrhetoric
Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation by Daniel J. Siegel

4.0

David Siegel's Mindsight is what happens when you attempt to view Insight Meditation through a Western, allopathic lens. First you replace meditation with therapy. Next you rename Insight as integration. This is the culmination of Siegel's threefold path: 1) mindsight can be cultivated through very practical steps, 2) when we develop the skill of mindsight we actually change the physical structure of the brain and 3) well-being emerges when we create connections in our lives and learn to use mindsight to help the brain achieve and maintain integration, a process by which separate elements are linked together into a working whole. I don't mean to demean the book but rather to point out that it introduces the concept of mindfulness to an audience that may balk at the more spiritual woowoo nature of cushion sitting, and it gives therapists another tool to use.