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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... (negative) selfevaluations can be rooted in cruel and callous indifference to the pain we cause ourselves (Gilbert et al., 2004; Gilbert & Irons, Chapter 10). Our entertainments too are riddled with a fascination for cruelty. From the ...
... negative thoughts and desires are sourced by (supernatural) external agents. Armed with these basic concepts, what follows is an exploration of possible evolutionary origins for some components of care/compassion; how it creates its ...
... negative affect (e.g. feelings of relief; Gray, 1987) or in the immediate phase of having acquired and consumed (Depue & Morrone-Strupinsky, in press). However, the positive affects of social, safeness-creating soothing, via the ...
... negative affect and generating warmth and expressing soothing signals (for example, friendly facial expression and soothing voice with feelings in-themabout-us, of acceptance). A basic co-regulating partnership that involves genes and ...
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