Daniel Siegel
| Daniel J. Siegel | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 17, 1957 |
| Alma mater |
Harvard Medical School UCLA |
| Occupation | Psychiatrist, author |
Daniel J. Siegel (born July 17, 1957) is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute.
Siegel completed his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his post-graduate medical education at UCLA. His training is in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. Siegel was the recipient of the UCLA psychiatry department's teaching award and several honorary fellowships for his work as director of UCLA's training program in child psychiatry and the Infant and Preschool Service at UCLA. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and is the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute. Siegel is Founding Co-Director of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. He serves as the Medical Director of the LifeSpan Learning Institute and on the Advisory Board of the Blue School in New York City, which has built its curriculum around Dr. Siegel’s Mindsight approach. Siegel is also on the Board of Trustees at the Garrison Institute.
Siegel is the author of several books on parenting and child development including the New York Times Bestseller Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain published by Penguin Random House in 2013. He is co-author, along with Tina Payne Bryson, PhD. of two additional New York Times Bestsellers The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Brain and No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, both also published by Penguin Random House. The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being published by WW Norton in 2007,The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience published by the Guilford Press in 1999 and Parenting from the Inside Out, which he co-wrote with Mary Hartzell in 2003 and was published by Tarcher.
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