How does one reel in such chaotic states of mind and integrate them with one’s everyday self? Daniel Siegel has argued that a healthy mind is an “integrated” mind (and shown plenty of evidence to back this fundamental principle up). In his vocabulary, that means a balance between successfully “differentiating” mental phenomena from each other and then “linking” them together in more organized ways, seeing their interrelations. This line of thinking of course has a lot in common with the developmental perspective proposed in this book and its prequel.
