Compassion: Conceptualisations, Research and Use in PsychotherapyPaul Gilbert Routledge, 5 jul 2005 - 416 páginas What is compassion, how does it affect the quality of our lives and how can we develop compassion for ourselves and others? Humans are capable of extreme cruelty but also considerable compassion. Often neglected in Western psychology, this book looks at how compassion may have evolved, and is linked to various capacities such as sympathy, empathy, forgiveness and warmth. Exploring the effects of early life experiences with families and peers, this book outlines how developing compassion for self and others can be key to helping people change, recover and develop ways of living that increase well-being. Focusing on the multi-dimensional nature of compassion, international contributors:
Compassion provides detailed outlines of interventions that are of particular value to psychotherapists and counsellors interested in developing compassion as a therapeutic focus in their work. It is also of value to social scientists interested in pro-social behaviour, and those seeking links between Buddhist and Western psychology. |
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... brain processes underlying attachment and mating systems. Ann Hackmann works at Oxford University, in a research group funded by the Wellcome Trust, to look at psychological treatments for the anxiety disorders. She has worked in this ...
... brain pathways. References Clark, J.J. (1994). Jung and Eastern Thought: A Dialogue with the Orient. London: Routledge. Crook, J.H. (1980). The Evolution of Human Consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Dalai Lama (2003) ...
... brain and how modification occurs via learning (Geary & Huffman, 2002). Attention is now focused on the ways genes interact and are expressed and the multitude of internal and external factors affecting gene expression and their effects ...
... brain to enhance the biopsychological infrastructures that make compassion possible (Gilbert & Irons, Chapter 10; Schwartz & Begley, 2002). New research has shown that even if monkey infants have genetic sensitivities for aggression and ...
... conditioning and sensitisation in specific brain pathways through to learning social values and self-identities. Through social interactions we learn to give meaning to the things that can elicit emotions (Li, 2003), 14 Gilbert.
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