Compassion focused therapy series#

Self-practice/self-reflection (SP/SR) training for compassion focused therapists, Tobyn Bell, James Bennett-Levy and Tara Hickey 13. Psychedelics, connectedness and compassion, Enzo Tagliazucchi, Lorena Llobenes and Natali Gumiy 12. Compassion focused therapy and the body: how physiological underpinnings of prosociality inform clinical practice, Nicola Petrocchi, Maria Di Bello, Simone Cheli and Cristina Ottaviani 11. Compassionate Mind Training: Key Themes, Paul Gilbert 9 Meeting the challenges of a multi mind and the role of grieving, Paul Gilbert 10. CFT Introducing and developing compassion functions and competencies, Paul Gilbert 8. Formulation and fears, blocks and resistances, Paul Gilbert Section II CFT practices and settings 7. Internal shame and self-disconnection: From hostile self-criticism to compassionate self-correction and guidance, Paul Gilbert 6. Shame, humiliation, social status and the pain of social disconnection, Paul Gilbert 5. The evolved functions of caring connections as a basis for compassion, Paul Gilbert 4. Compassion focused therapy as an evolution informed, biopsychosocial science of the mind: History and challenge, Paul Gilbert 3. Setting the scene: Psychotherapy at a crossroads and a compassionate way forward, Paul Gilbert 2. Section I Compassion focused therapy: An evolved biopsychosocial approach 1.

Compassion focused therapy series#

The third section offers a series of multi-authored chapters on interventions for a range of different mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, trauma, and many others.īeing the first major clinical book on compassion focused therapy, with leading international researchers and clinicians addressing central problems, this landmark publication will appeal to psychotherapists from a variety of schools as well as being a vital resource for compassion focused therapists. With this framework and basis, the next sections of the book explore CFT applied to groups, specific interventions such as chair work, the importance of applying the principles of the therapy to oneself, the CFT therapeutic relationship, and a chapter offering a systematic review of the evidence for CFT. The first section of the book explores the evolution and physiological infrastructures of caring, and how compassion arises when humans use their complex cognitive competencies to address suffering deliberately and intentionally.

Compassion Focused Therapy: Clinical Practice and Applications offers evidence-based guidance and extensive insight into the science behind compassion focused therapy.