American · b. 1957
Daniel J. Siegel is an American psychiatrist, educator and author. He earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School and trained in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry at UCLA, where he is a clinical professor of psychiatry. He directs the Mindsight Institute, which offers courses on the connection between mind, brain and relationships. Siegel developed the field he calls interpersonal neurobiology, which combines findings from neuroscience, psychology, attachment research and other disciplines. His books include The Developing Mind, Mindsight, The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline, the last two written with Tina Payne Bryson, and Parenting from the Inside Out, written with Mary Hartzell. Many of them became bestsellers and are widely used by parents, teachers and therapists. He has lectured around the world and helped bring ideas about attachment, memory and emotional regulation to a general audience.