The Mindful Therapist

This book is a really wonderful synthesis of broad-but-accurate strokes of neuroscience and the humanistic aspects of mindfulness. For me, the tripping point was that even though Siegel has a sense of humor about his acronyms, there were still too many for them to be useful for me, and I often found the graphics often forgettably simple for complex ideas where more detailed graphics (especially neuroanatomical ones) might have actually helped. I'll have to read more Siegel, as I gather some of his books more directly discuss therapeutic technique. Overall, I'm glad I read it, I'm sure I'll return to it, but it was one of those books you can tell was written by a brilliant person whose brilliance didn't always translate successfully onto the page in this particular endeavor.