Both a personal and general meditation on identity and belonging, Daniel
J. Siegel's 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.