The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience
The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience
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发展中的心智：走向人际体验的神经生物学
DOI：
10.1176/appi.ajp.157.9.1530
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发表时间：
2000
影响因子：
17.7
通讯作者：
P. Giovacchini
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作者：
P. Giovacchini
当我第一次收到这本书的时候，我有一种冲动，想把它还给编辑，因为我在神经科学方面没有特别的专业知识。沉思了几分钟后，我觉得他的态度有点虚张声势，“为什么不复习一下，同时，学点关于一个有重要未来的学科的东西呢？”此外，副标题暗示，这本书处理有关身心联系和自然争议的令人烦恼和困惑的问题。这个决定对我来说是最幸运的，满足了我最大的期望。我没有费力地学习神经生物学，而是发现自己相当轻松地吸收了信息，因为1)作者能够在人际关系的一般背景下，特别是在治疗的背景下呈现他的材料，2)作者是一个清晰的大师，避免了迂腐，并成功地使他的数据在临床上有用。西格尔博士的左右脑显然都运转良好，这就解释了这本书的可读性，尽管他提供了大量的信息，并对文献进行了学术和广泛的调查。他强调了大脑的操作性定义，包括信息处理和高水平的能量。在本文有限的篇幅内，不可能全面讨论本书的内容。大脑有1000亿个神经元，因此涉及的复杂性是巨大的。我只能提到一些亮点。作者着重于发育，指出起初有许多神经元，但相对较少的突触。后者在与照顾者的经验背景下发展，这就是为什么这本书是一本关于人际神经生物学的论文。大脑中发生的一切都与经验有关。
When I first received this book, I was seized by the impulse to return it to the editor, because I had no special expertise in the neurosciences. After musing for a few minutes, I felt a mild degree of bravado that was manifested in the attitude, Why not review it and, at the same time, learn something about a subject that has an important future? Furthermore, the subtitle implies that the book deals with vexing and puzzling questions about mind-body connections and naturenurture controversies.This decision was most fortunate for me and fulfilled my wildest expectations. Instead of laboriously struggling to learn about neurobiology, I found myself fairly effortlessly assimilating information because 1) the author is able to present his material in the context of interpersonal relationships in general and the treatment dyad in particular, and 2) the author is a master of lucidity, avoids pedantry, and succeeds in making his data clinically useful. Dr. Siegel apparently has well-functioning right and left hemispheres, which accounts for the book’s facile readability in spite of the enormous amount of information he presents and his scholarly and expansive survey of the literature. He stresses an operational definition of the brain that involves processing of information and high levels of energy. It is impossible in the limited space of this review to discuss the contents of this book thoroughly. The brain has 100 billion neurons, so the complexities involved are enormous. I can only refer to some highlights. The author focuses on development and points out that at first there are many neurons but relatively few synapses. The latter develop in the context of experiences with caregivers, and that is why this book is a treatise on interpersonal neurobiology. Everything that happens in the brain is related to experience.