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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... child. Attachment mechanisms are useless if parents do not provide at least some measure of care (Gillath et al., Chapter 4). Although different approaches to the evolvedenvironment issue can make different predictions about behaviour ...
... children but may engage in much charity work and dedicate themselves to a cause. Feeling uncomfortable with caring ... child seeks care, or a person seeks to be wanted as a friend/ally by others, or to be sexually attractive to another ...
... child's internal and external world (Elliot & Reiss, 2003; Knox, 2003). Providing a safe/secure base from external threats, and being responsive to distress calls (MacLean, 1985), was central to Bowlby's attachment theory (1969, 1973) ...
... child is safe. Seeking attachment figures or other goals implies some sense of deficit and 'wanting' in a way that safeness does not (Allen, personal communication). Bembridge & Robinson (2003) distinguish a 'wanting' from a 'liking ...
... child who is loved and regularly soothed will have their soothing systems (neuro-pathways) stimulated to grow and branch. These in turn will affect the maturation of, and regulation of, 'seeking' and 'threat' systems. Such children are ...
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Compassion: Conceptualisations, Research and Use in Psychotherapy Paul Gilbert Vista previa restringida - 2004 |
Compassion: Conceptualisations, Research and Use in Psychotherapy Paul Gilbert Vista previa restringida - 2005 |