IntraConnected: MWe (Me + We) as the Integration of Self, Identity, and Belonging (IPNB)

Exploring the nature of how our experience of what we call ÒselfÓ emerges across the lifespan.

Both a personal and general meditation on identity and belonging, Daniel J. SiegelÕs book combines personal reflections with scientific discussions of how the mind, brain, and our relationships shape who we are. Weaving the internal and external, the subjective and objective, IntraConnected reveals how our culture may give us a message of separation as a solo, isolated self, but a wider perspective unveils that who we are may be something more_broader than the brain, bigger even than the body_and fundamental to social systems and the natural world.

Our body-based self_the origin of a Me_is not only connected to others but connected within our relational worlds themselves_a WE_forming the essence of how we belong and our identity. If the pandemic has taught us nothing else, it has taught us that we are all connected. IntraConnected discusses that bond, as well as other realities of our intraconnected lives.

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