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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... safe–affiliative strategies to flourish and work well. Ecologies influence which strategies and role enactments (e.g. competitive or affiliative) are going to be most useful (Cohen, 2001; see below). Human life is about a battle not so ...
... safe (Buss, 2003; Gilbert, 1989, 1993). When environments are threatening, humans have (often rapid) access to an evolved menu or suite of strategic responses (ways of attending, feeling, behaving and thinking) to aid adaptive ...
... safe (safety seeking, fight/ flight, etc.), in contrast to feeling safe and then, from that position, exploring what it is that makes them feel threatened and defensive. Consequently, Gilbert (1995) changed the term safety to safeness ...
... safe exploration of a 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 ...
... safe and are not anticipating rewards or seeking them out. For Bowlby (1969, 1973), attachment systems may be turned off when the child is safe. Seeking attachment figures or other goals implies some sense of deficit and 'wanting' in a ...
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Compassion: Conceptualisations, Research and Use in Psychotherapy Paul Gilbert Vista previa restringida - 2004 |
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