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published
April 26th 2004
(first published 2003)
by Tarcher
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Paperback, 272 pages
isbn
1585422959
(isbn13: 9781585422951)
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How many parents have found themselves thinking: I can't believe I just said to my child the very thing my parents used to say to me! Am I just destin...more
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Read in January, 2008
Another excellent book. Read it starting with chapter 7, then going to the beginning. Read it when you find yourself dealing with your child in a very unideal way, knowing it at the time, and still not being able to do otherwise. This book will explain to you why. And explain what is going on in your brain (fight or flight) that makes you unable to be the warm creative loving or patient at that moment...and what to do about it.
Wisdom: when your brain gets stressed in certain ways it ge...more
Wisdom: when your brain gets stressed in certain ways it ge...more
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06/29/09
Khaya
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One of my latest struggles re. my clients is how to help them with parenting issues without making the therapy into a glorified parenting class. I was hoping this book would help me.
If I were reading this purely for intellectual stimulation, I'd probably be enjoying it more. There's a lot of "interpersonal neurobiology" stuff which I usually find interesting but am skimming/skipping instead in an effort to get to the part which will more directly help me help my clients. ...more
If I were reading this purely for intellectual stimulation, I'd probably be enjoying it more. There's a lot of "interpersonal neurobiology" stuff which I usually find interesting but am skimming/skipping instead in an effort to get to the part which will more directly help me help my clients. ...more
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Read in March, 2009
This is very good. Daniel Siegel is a psychiatrist that specializes in trauma, child development and social neuroscience. After publishing this book his readers and workshop attenders asked him to teach them meditation. He didn't know what they were talking about. He had written about "mindfulness"; they read it as "meditation".
So, he began to explore the research on meditation and the brain and discovered amazing similarities with his research on healthly atta...more
So, he began to explore the research on meditation and the brain and discovered amazing similarities with his research on healthly atta...more
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Though Parenting from the Inside Out is categorized as Parenting, it is only kind of written for parents. The author couldn't seem to decide who his audience was. Much of the book is written in such scientific language that it would only be readable for other psychological professionals, and even then, it might be hard to decode. All of the mamas I've spoken to about this book said they couldn't get through it.
I finally gave myself permission to skim to try to find anything that mig
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Read in August, 2008
you'll not find parenting tips, per se, in this book, but it is provocative. examines the fundamental basis of parent-child relationships which isn't about tips, skills, or strategies. siegel prompts the reader to consider how healthy and adaptive are his or her responses to life situations, specifically parenting scenarios. i think he's asking parents, readers, to consider "how healthy and whole am i?" the basic assumption, a sound but too often neglected concept, is that my personal ...more
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Read in April, 2009
A very good reference book to have for any parent and person who works in mental health. The first few chapters are a bit rough to get through unless you are a nuerologist because so much is spent talking about our brain's structure and how we attach. It solidified what I already knew which is the importance of attachment, but it also gave me hope about how to help mend people's experiences with early life disorganized or ambivalant attachment issues.
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The content is great.. but I admit its a little beyond my reading level. Too much jargon. I like to think I am a fairly intelligent person. With an IQ exceeding 130 I am certainly not dense. However, I admit defeat! The concept of this book is awesome, the content is excellent, but reading it was so hard cognitively that I had a hard time processing the emotional information that I potentially could have received.
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Read in December, 2007
Not being a parent, I never would have read this book had a friend not recommended it as a good book for relationships in general. I found it to be so. It was a good review of some of what I learned from Bruce Perry's lectures on attachment and from Ron Henke, my former father-in-law about attachment. Most memorable were the points that the important thing about current relationships is the story you bring to it of your formative relationships. That making sense of your early relationships, ...more
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recommends it for:
neurotic new parents
I am a bit of an armchair psychologist so this book was right up my alley. Intelligent, thoughtful but not too clinical, this book explains why we find ourselves repeating the behavior patterns of our parents, good and bad, with our own children. It discusses implicit and explicit memory, brain development and the importance of a healthy parental attachment. Importantly (for me), the authors urge parents to examine their memories of childhood closely and to determine what type of attachment t...more
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Read in January, 2009
Excellent parenting book for those interested in the neurology behind it. Helps you dig around in your cerebral cobwebs from childhood to see what is triggering you during those "ugh why did that have to go that way?" moments with your kids. But the genius is that it isn't too "self-helpy" and has excellent scientific, researched based information. Siegel is leading research in the field he created called interpersonal neurobiology and if this is your cup of tea, keep an ey...more
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Read in June, 2009
I liked this even though it hit a little too "close to home." So much of our parenting is really your parents parenting and if you've had bad models, then boy, you've got your work cut out for you. Yup, don't I know it. If only I could banish all that to some hidden place, however, this book encourages you to go and look at it. Process it and move forward (oooh, therapy in a book!). I'm ... well, I'm ... yea. Good read. Will need to check out again.
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Read in January, 2009
The title of this book is somewhat deceiving. This isn't a book of tips on parenting, but an intellectual look at the formation and continuation of relationships--all with a neurobiological framework.
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Read in January, 2007
Excellent information about attachment and how it affects brain development
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Read in January, 2008
Great introduction to attachment for self and child.
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Read in March, 2008
I began reading "What Happy People Know" and realized why "Parenting from the Inside Out" was so dang depressing to me.
What Happy People Know says that going back and stirring up the pain of childhood experiences simply does not help. So I stopped reading the Parenting book, kept on with the Happy book, and feel a ton better!
What Happy People Know says that going back and stirring up the pain of childhood experiences simply does not help. So I stopped reading the Parenting book, kept on with the Happy book, and feel a ton better!
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Read in September, 2007
Some of the parenting material is so obvious, but I had never given it any thought and no one ever talks about it. This book is nice for self reflection about how one was parented and helps one consciously "plan" strategies for parenting. The parts about brain development are interesting but can be quite dense.
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Read in May, 2008
recommends it for:
therapists and parents
This is one of the best books I have read that summarizes and applies brain research to parenting. It is quite theoretical, and not entirely practical, but I tend to like to have theoretical/philosophical perspective and I can figure out how to apply it.
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12/24/07
David
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Not just parents.
I'm about a third of the way through. I read a review here that said it was full of impenetrable psych-babble but that is not the case at all. It is full of brain research. Probably won't interest everybody but it is most certainly not psycho-babble.
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Read in February, 2008
The most honest look at yourself as a parent. Wonderful deep assessment and understanding of attachment. Compassionate look at our own childhoods and fascinating look at neurology and psychology.
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Read in April, 2008
I didn't have a chance to finish this book because it was due back at the library. I did like what I was able to read, however. At some point in the future, I would like to finish it.
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