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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... 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 ...
... linked to metta or loving-kindness. This form of loving is not linked to 'desire' for the other or seeking attachments. Salzberg (1995) says that metta comes from two words meaning 'gentle' and 'friend' (p. 24). Compassion (which is an ...
... linked to genetic relatedness. Thus if, say, you survive an accident but your ten brothers and sisters are killed, your own individual fitness may be intact but your inclusive fitness has seriously suffered. If you die saving them, then ...
... linking altruism to inclusive fitness, and altruism to personal motivation is to posit the evolution of signal-sensitive systems that can detect/ recognise key stimuli (food and mates), have a reactive/response function (e.g. threat ...
... linking them with motives and emotions (e.g. for food, for sex and to care), but they are developed and patterned by experiences (Knox, 2003; Li, 2003). Moreover, genes themselves can be turned on and off by factors such as the womb ...
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