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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... interaction of complex processes that include genes, psychological systems, early life experiences and social ecologies. Chapter 3, by Sheila Wang, develops an important model of compassion that is able to link Buddhist ...
... interactions have been recommended as central to psychotherapy for many years, compassion offers a slightly different way of thinking about these processes and opens up new avenues for research and development, one especially exciting ...
... interactions that will be discussed. Historical background Any analysis of compassion plays against a historical background of beliefs about human nature. Although Buddhism sees compassion as basic to our nature (Goleman, 2003; Wang ...
Conceptualisations, Research and Use in Psychotherapy Paul Gilbert. Figure 2.1 Biopsychosocial and ecological interactions. long held the view that our basic natures (our evolved dispositions) are to be more cruel than kind (de Waal ...
... interact and are expressed and the multitude of internal and external factors affecting gene expression and their effects – giving rise to phenotypes (Lickliter & Honeycutt, 2003). These and many other such important issues will not ...
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