IntraConnected: MWe (Me + We) as the Integration of Self, Identity, and Belonging (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

Exploring the nature of how our experience of what we call self emerges across the lifespan. Both a personal and general meditation on identity and belonging, Daniel J. Siegels 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 morebroader than the brain, bigger even than the bodyand fundamental to social systems and the natural world. Our body-based selfthe origin of a Meis not only connected to others but connected within our relational worlds themselvesa WEforming 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. 21 black-and-white figures