Dr. Dan Siegel: How Personality Influences Mental Mealth

In this interview, Dr. Dan Siegel discusses his upcoming book, "Personality and Wholeness in Therapy," which explores the science behind personality, its development, and how it can be approached in therapy. He explains the book's premise, detailing the interplay between temperament, attachment, and experience in shaping personality. Siegel introduces the Patterns of Developmental Pathways (PDP) model, integrating concepts like the Enneagram, and discusses the three vectors (agency, bonding, and certainty) and attendances (inward, outward, shimmering) that influence personality patterns. The conversation covers how secure and insecure attachments impact personality integration, the concept of wholeness, and how therapists can help clients transform their personalities from prisons into playgrounds by understanding these patterns and promoting integration.