BUILD A BRAIN

CONNECTING THE KEY CONCERNS IN

SEIGEL’S THE DEVELOPING MIND
GREETING

• The Lord be with you

And also with you
Lift up your hearts
We lift them to the Lord
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God
It is right to give God thanks and praise
LIVE LONG AND ?
• Honoring 50 year anniversary
• View presentation
• What would Siegle say?
BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE AND INTERCONNECTING
PRINCIPLES
• Memory • States of Mind (5)
• Attachment • Representations (6)
• Emotion • Emotional Regulation (7)
• Interpersonal Connections (8)
• Integration (9)
• Summary: Forms of
Integration (why important?)
 • Awareness/Consciousness at a given moment?
STATES • Def: Total Pattern of Activations in the brain at a given
OF MIND moment (186)
• “Modules” of brain “circuitry” work locally but coordinate
across the brain based on emotional “moods” that affect
regulation that becomes more likely in the future
• “A state of mind can be proposed to be a pattern of
activation of recruited systems within the brain responsible
for (1) perceptual bias, (2) emotional tone and regulation,
(3) memory processes, (4) mental models, and (5)
behavioral response patterns.” (189)
• Note the emphasis on breadth but also coordination in
brain: yet context sensitive (trauma and disorganization)
 • Interplay of Complex, Dynamic, Systems (neural net) that
STATES result in emergence of mind through interplay of brain
OF MIND activity and social interaction (193)
• Brain systems include localized areas but are open and
adaptive, complex, self-organizing, responsive (emotion),
non-linear that result in emergent yet recursive
(repeating) constrained by experiences/attachments
• Exist “over time” via elements of enduring information
processing, emotion, “selfing” or enduring self states
• Interpersonal State of Mind as a “super system” of
dyadic connections (more later)
• Need for emotional growth through flow of states
 REPRESENTATIONS
• Means of communication via constructions of reality
• Asymmetry a key in the brain (communicative issues of laterality)
as well as attachment (language of relationships)
• Mental symbols (with neural correlate/created by neuronal firings) contains
information and creates an effect (221) “Correlation”
• Definite mental representations though how organized less understood (language
appears key) but allows for cognitive and emotive engagement
• We are synaptically, semantically, and societally interconnected -231
• Professor: not as sold on bilateral emphasis but do appreciate key elements of
ways of knowing (257), integration (258 & 266), as well as mindsight (260
EMOTIONAL • Emotions serve as “central organizers and integrators” that
lead to integrative function 267
REGULATION
• Children: “dyadic self regulation that relies on attachment”
• Involves Temperament, Attachment, and Experience
• Interplay between intensity and sensitivity result in specific
areas of brain often shaped by base emotions but also
social/cultural expressions of emotion
• Windows of Tolerance and Recovery address extreme
emotional engagement
• All in interplay with consciousness (2-way) and
metacognition (see 297)
• While anchored in core traits, self-regulation can happen
INTERPERSONAL CONNECTIONS

• Supersystem (connecting brain to brain via person to person interface- 307

• Making sense of life requires mental time travel (past, present, future)- 312
• Key terms: tracking, alignment, and resonance- 313
• Neurological implications: mirror neurons and social neuroscience- 314-
315, 322
• Interpersonal can lead to integration- 321
• Disappointment: more therapeutic than developmental (culture almost
ignored)
• Remember the Future and Imagine the Past-332
INTEGRATION: SYNCHRONIC
(IN A MOMENT)
• FACES acronym (336)
• Flexible • Three Axes (340-341)
• Adaptive
• Verticle
• Coherent • Low road (limbic) to high road
• Energized (frontal)
• Stable • Dosal-Ventral (hemisphere)
• Emotion and Sleep • Right-Left motivational regions
(chpt 6)
important • Lateral
• Bi-lateral sensory integration
 INTEGRATION: DIACHRONIC (OVER TIME)
• Definition
• Contributing influences
• “integration utilizes the resonance of
• Interpersonal attachment
different subsystems to achieve cohesive
(351-55)
states and a coherent flow of states
• Culture/Internal voice
across time. Such a process creates a
(362-364)
more complex, functionally linked
• Narratives (365 ff)
system, which itself can become a
subcomponent of even larger and more
complex systems” (363)
• Integration as process (development)
over time (376)