Books like Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

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The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk · Psychology

The Body Keeps the Score is Bessel van der Kolk's account of four decades spent studying and treating trauma, from Vietnam veterans at the VA in the 1970s to survivors of childhood abuse, accidents, and domestic violence.

Both dig into neuroscience.

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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

Lisa Feldman Barrett · Psychology

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a neuroscientist and psychologist at Northeastern University who has spent thirty years studying emotion, and her conclusion challenges the most widely held view of what emotions are.

Both dig into neuroscience.

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Scattered Minds

Gabor Maté · Health

Scattered Minds, originally published as Scattered, is Gabor Maté's account of ADHD seen through the lens of his own diagnosis and his decades of clinical practice.

Shares neuroscience and emotional regulation with Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation.

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Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman · Psychology

Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, published in 1995, made a widely influential argument: that the cluster of abilities involved in managing emotions — self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and social skill — predicts life outcomes at least as well as IQ, and possibly better in many domains.

Both dig into self-awareness.

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The Myth of Normal

Gabor Maté · Health

The Myth of Normal is Gabor Maté's most ambitious book, co-written with his son Daniel Maté.

A kindred psychology read.

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A General Theory of Love

Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon · Psychology

A General Theory of Love is a 2000 book by three psychiatrists at the University of California, San Francisco — Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon — who set out to explain love scientifically without stripping it of its significance.

Shares neuroscience and relationships with Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation.

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Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence

Rick Hanson · Psychology

Rick Hanson is a neuropsychologist and meditation teacher, and this book is his attempt to explain why wellbeing is so hard to sustain and what the brain science suggests you can do about it.

Shares neuroscience and mindfulness with Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation.

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The Emotional Life of Your Brain

Richard J. Davidson and Sharon Begley · Psychology

Richard Davidson spent decades in a field where discussing emotions in relation to brain science was considered soft and suspect.

Shares neuroscience and mindfulness with Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation.

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The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson · Psychology

Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson's premise is that much of what frustrates parents — tantrums, defiance, emotional meltdowns — is best understood not as bad behavior but as immature brain function.

Shares neuroscience and emotional regulation with Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation.

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Difficult Conversations

Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen · Business

Difficult Conversations is the product of the Harvard Negotiation Project, the same research group that produced Getting to Yes.

Shares self-awareness and relationships with Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation.

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Leadership and Self-Deception

The Arbinger Institute · Business

Leadership and Self-Deception is The Arbinger Institute's business fable about a leadership problem that most leaders don't recognize in themselves: the tendency to see other people as objects rather than as people.

Shares self-awareness and relationships with Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation.

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Mindful Leadership

Maria Gonzalez · Business

Mindful Leadership is Maria Gonzalez's argument that mindfulness practice is not a wellness accessory for leaders but a core performance tool.

Shares self-awareness and mindfulness with Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation.