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The Seventh Sense

Rating 4.0
Word count
183K words
Chapters
23
ISBN
9787573908421

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Summary

A landmark work by renowned psychologist Daniel J. Siegel, with a foreword by Daniel Goleman, the father of emotional and social intelligence.

One revolutionary new concept, twelve compelling life stories, and twenty-five years of clinical practice. Help you escape psychological traps, master your emotions, repair relationships, and unlock your potential. Set your happiness free.

Editor's review

This book makes "Mindsight" tangible and usable: it points to awareness of one's own inner world and of others, helping readers see patterns amid emotional ups and downs and interpersonal friction rather than being driven by habit. One new concept links twelve true stories, woven with observations from the author's twenty-five years of clinical practice, giving the book both a theoretical backbone and the warmth of real life. Compared with ordinary emotion-management books, it stresses "see first, then regulate," placing attention training, relationship repair, and potential release on a single path. It suits slow reading when emotions recur, relationships strain, or the self feels confused, and serves as a reference on how the mind works for helping professionals in counseling, education, and healthcare. The style is popular psychology with many cases; readers can take notes against their own experience as they read.

Who it's for

A good fit for

  • General readers hoping to improve emotional awareness and self-regulation
  • People who repeatedly struggle in intimate relationships and parent-child communication
  • Practitioners in counseling, education, healthcare, and other helping professions
  • Readers interested in popular psychology who are willing to explore themselves

Not a good fit for

  • Readers expecting quick technique checklists and unwilling to reflect on themselves
  • People with serious psychological distress who need clinical diagnosis and treatment plans
  • Researchers who prefer purely academic theory or strict empirical literature reviews

Reading tips

  1. Read the first two chapters to build the conceptual framework of "Mindsight," then choose case chapters by interest.
  2. After each story, write down a similar emotional or relational scene of your own in three sentences.
  3. Break the awareness exercises into five-minute daily practices and review changes after two weeks.
  4. Read with a trusted friend and discuss one relationship issue from each chapter.

About the publisher

Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House is a comprehensive science and technology publisher known for academic monographs, applied technology titles and popular science books, with a focus on three areas: scholarship, popular science and science education. Judging from the books in the catalog, its publishing covers popular science, medicine, management, social psychology, Eastern philosophy and personal finance. It publishes works by overseas authors such as Douglas Hofstadter, Atul Gawande and Carlota Perez alongside Chinese writers including Liu Jian, Hu Hai, Wang Yifang and Peng Xiaohua. Representative titles include Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, Being Mortal, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital, A Short History of the Human Body (full-color illustrated edition), and Gawande's Better and Complications, spanning cognitive science, medical humanities and the social dimensions of technology. Its distinctive approach is to connect scholarship and the general reader through popular science, valuing both ideas and readability. As public information is limited, this profile is drawn only from the books in the catalog.

Contents

  1. 版权信息
  2. 推荐序 情商与社交商的基础
  3. 中文版序 心理、大脑与人际关系
  4. 引言 潜入心灵的深海
  5. 第一部分 认识第七感
  6. 01 第七感与身体 丢失了灵魂的妈妈
  7. 02 第七感与人际关系 愤怒的可丽饼
  8. 03 第七感与心理 哈佛医学生的心是木头做的
  9. 第二部分 获得第七感
  10. 04 整合的8个领域 临时拼凑的合唱团
  11. 05 觉知力 情绪躁动的高二学生
  12. 06 左右脑 冷酷的92岁律师
  13. 07 感知力 没时间看医生的医生
  14. 08 记忆 记忆扭曲的越战老兵
  15. 09 童年 在受虐中长大的心理治疗师
  16. 10 自我 身不由己的“钻石王老五”
  17. 11 人际关系 幻灭的夫妻
  18. 12 不确定性 害怕桌角的小女孩
  19. 第三部分 提升第七感
  20. 13 拓展自我 创造意义感和幸福感
  21. 附录 大脑剖析
  22. 致谢
  23. 译者后记

FAQ

What ability does "Mindsight" specifically refer to?
The book understands it as awareness of the inner world, including perceiving one's own emotions, thoughts, and bodily reactions, and understanding others' inner states. It is not a mystical concept but a psychological ability that can be gradually strengthened through attention and reflection, used to reduce misunderstandings and conflicts caused by automatic reactions.
Can I understand it without a psychology background?
Yes. The book introduces concepts through stories and everyday scenes, with friendly explanations of terms, and requires no professional background. Readers need only a little patience for self-observation, slowing down at theoretical passages and understanding them through their own experience.
Can this book replace psychological counseling?
No. It offers popular methods for self-awareness and understanding relationships, suitable as a reference for everyday growth. If emotional distress lasts long, affects sleep and work, or involves trauma, professional psychological services should still be sought, with reading as a supplement rather than a substitute.

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About the author

Daniel Siegel is an author whose writing focuses mainly on applied psychology and education, and a number of his works have been translated for Chinese readers, with five titles held in the collection. His representative works include How to Raise a Child Who Is Self-Motivated and Proactive, The Seven-Part Series on Parenting, Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, The Seventh Sense, and The Nature of the Mind. These titles suggest that his writing addresses how the mind works, emotion and self-awareness, as well as parenting and adolescent development, seeking to translate psychological ideas into everyday methods that parents and educators can understand and apply. Because public information is limited, his biographical details remain incomplete, but the available works show writing that balances professional insight with readability and is suitable for readers concerned with child development and psychological growth.

黄珏苹 Author

Huang Jueping is a Chinese book author and translator. Public information about her is limited, and her nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background are not clearly documented. Eighteen of her works are held in the collection, spanning social culture, Eastern philosophy, applied psychology, artificial intelligence, Western philosophy, and popular science. Her representative works include The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Nature of the Human Heart, Brain-Computer Interfaces: How BCIs Will Change Humanity's Future, Creativity: The Psychology of Flow and Innovation, The Hero's Journey, and Which New Neuroscience Discoveries Will Soon Change the World. Judging from these works, her writing and editing center on mythic narrative, psychology, brain science, and the frontiers of technology, and she is skilled at introducing interdisciplinary ideas to Chinese readers in a style that is both scholarly and accessible.

王友富 Author

Wang Youfu is a Chinese translator of psychology books. Public information about him is limited; what is known is that his main translation work was done in collaboration with Huang Jueping, translating into Chinese Mindsight, a book by the American psychologist Daniel J. Siegel. Centered on the mind, the brain, and interpersonal relationships, the book belongs to the field of applied psychology. It was published by Zhejiang People's Publishing House in 2013 and reissued by Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House in 2023, with two related works held in the database. Judging from the subject matter of his translations, he focuses on introducing frontier ideas from brain science and psychotherapy to Chinese readers; his translations serve the popular-science presentation of the original, helping readers understand the connections among the mind, emotions, and social relationships.

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