Interpersonal neurobiology
Interpersonal neurobiology (often shortened to IPNB) is an interdisciplinary field developed by psychiatrist Dr. Daniel J. Siegel that studies how the brain, the body, and relationships shape one another. It blends neuroscience, psychology, attachment theory, developmental science, and systems theory into a single framework for understanding human behaviour and emotional regulation.
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Interpersonal neurobiology as a neurodiversity-affirming framework
Interpersonal neurobiology (IPNB) offers a generative way to understand children’s nervous systems, because it treats development as an emergent, relational process shaped through safety, attunement, and repair, and this orientation produces a worldview in which difference is interpreted through physiology and experience rather than compliance or performance. IPNB proceeds from the understanding that minds evolve…
