Daniel Siegel

About

Psychiatry researcher and interpersonal neurobiologist who served as director of the University of California, Los Angeles' Mindfulness Awareness Research Center. He was honored as an American Psychiatric Association Distinguished Fellow.

Before Fame

After graduating from Harvard Medical School, he completed residencies in psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Trivia

He has published several scientific works, including The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are; Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body and Brain; and The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration.

Family Life

He and his family settled in the Los Angeles, California area.

Associated With

He and actress Goldie Hawn both opened centers for mindfulness training.