Ep 13: Dan Siegel |Mindsight
10/10/16 • 56 min
Welcome to Episode 13 of the Medmastery Show. I hope you had a great summer and go with energy and inspiration into the new academic year.
Inspiration and energy is what you’ll get from today’s interview. I promise you that. There are lots of nuggets of wisdom that you can apply and use in your own life. Today’s guest is Dr. Dan Siegel.
He’s an internationally acclaimed psychiatrist and New York Times bestselling author. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and then trained in pediatrics and psychiatry at UCLA.
Dr. Siegel is an internationally acclaimed mindfulness expert and is known for his work on the new field of Interpersonal Neurobiology. You’ll learn more about it in the interview.
He received many honors some of which include the UCLA psychiatry department's teaching award and several honorary fellowships for his work as director of UCLA's training program in child psychiatry. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and is the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute.
He has lectured for folks like the Dalai Lama, Pope John Paul II, Google University, the Minister of Education of Singapore and the Public School Superintendents of the United States. So you see, there are lots of people who trust his advice and whose lives he helped to improve.
I could go on and on raving about Dan. Instead I suggest you listen to and learn from the man himself.
Welcome to Episode 13 of the Medmastery Show. I hope you had a great summer and go with energy and inspiration into the new academic year.
Inspiration and energy is what you’ll get from today’s interview. I promise you that. There are lots of nuggets of wisdom that you can apply and use in your own life. Today’s guest is Dr. Dan Siegel.
He’s an internationally acclaimed psychiatrist and New York Times bestselling author. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and then trained in pediatrics and psychiatry at UCLA.
Dr. Siegel is an internationally acclaimed mindfulness expert and is known for his work on the new field of Interpersonal Neurobiology. You’ll learn more about it in the interview.
He received many honors some of which include the UCLA psychiatry department's teaching award and several honorary fellowships for his work as director of UCLA's training program in child psychiatry. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and is the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute.
He has lectured for folks like the Dalai Lama, Pope John Paul II, Google University, the Minister of Education of Singapore and the Public School Superintendents of the United States. So you see, there are lots of people who trust his advice and whose lives he helped to improve.
I could go on and on raving about Dan. Instead I suggest you listen to and learn from the man himself.
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Ep 12: Judson Brewer | Mindfulness in Medicine
Welcome to Episode 12 of the Medmastery Show. I’m super excited about today’s episode. First off - let me tell you, we’ve been super busy these last couple of weeks creating brand-new courses and workshops that will help you become the best clinician you can possibly be.
Some of these courses are already online some will be published in the upcoming months. So stay tune. But back to this episode:
Today’s guest is Judson Brewer MD an internationally acclaimed psychiatrist and mindfulness expert. His talks at TED and TEDMED on the use of mindfulness techniques in medicine have hit over 5 million views.
Dr. Brewer has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for addiction, including both in-person and app-based treatments.
In this interview, Judson explains how we can use mindfulness for ourselves and our patients to help us become happier and more fulfilled in our jobs and daily lives.
So without further ado, here’s Judson Brewer.
Among other things, we’ll cover:
- What is mindfulness and how you can use it in your life and patients
- What are the differences between the most common forms of meditation
- Why mindfulness is over five times more effective than traditional addiction therapy
- How Judson meditates
- Why you are probably addicted and what you can do about it
- Why you need to start meditating and how to do it
- And much, much more
If you like this episode, then absolutely make sure to also check out Dr. Brewer’s TED talks, which you can find in the show notes at www.medmastery.com/magazine.
Next Episode
Ep 14: Samuel Shem |Failure, creativity and life as a clinician
Have you read the novel “The House of God” by psychiatrist Samuel Shem? I read it when I was in medical school and it deeply influenced me.
The book tells a captivating story of what it’s like to be a Harvard resident with lots of humor, drama and wisdom.
I’ve had the great pleasure to interview Samuel Shem for you. In this conversation we cover lots of ground like:
- The best advice he ever got
- What his creative process looks like
- How he came up with the idea for The House of God
- How failure has set him up for success
- The quote he lives by
- And much, much more
If you like this episode you’ll love
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