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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... suggested that compassion is an emergent property of our minds that is dependent on the interaction of complex processes that include genes, psychological systems, early life experiences and social ecologies. Chapter 3, by Sheila Wang ...
... suggested that small changes in a few genes can have radical effects on how neurons grow and form complex networks in the brain and how modification occurs via learning (Geary & Huffman, 2002). Attention is now focused on the ways genes ...
... suggest that the kind of learning humans are capable of via culture means that culture provides a new way of passing information from one generation to another and thus can be thought of as a new form of information transfer upon which ...
... suggested that different co-assemblies between motives, emotions, informationprocessing routines and behaviours give rise to different internal patterns of neurophysiological activity that can loosely be called social mentalities ...
... suggested as follows. 1 Care eliciting: Involves relationship forming with another who can provide protection, and needed investment for survival and (in mammals) emotional regulation. It solves the problems of regulating (early) threat ...
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