Dan Siegel, MD, is the Founder and Director of Education of the Mindsight Institute and Founding Co-Director of the the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA, where he also served as Co-Principal Investigator at the Center for Culture, Brain and Development and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine.
An award-winning educator, Dan is the author of five New York Times bestsellers and more than fifteen other books, which have been translated into over forty languages. As the founding editor of theNorton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology (“IPNB”), he has overseen the publication of one hundred books in the transdisciplinary IPNB framework, which explores the mind and mental health.
A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dan completed his postgraduate training at UCLA, specializing in pediatrics, and adult, adolescent, and child psychiatry. He was trained in attachment research and narrative analysis through a National Institute of Mental Health research fellowship, focusing on how relationships shape autobiographical meaning-making and influence development across the lifespan.