Compassion: From Its Evolution to a Psychotherapy

Paul Gilbert · 9 Dec 2020

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Cultivating compassion for oneself and others can be a central focus of psychotherapy.

Their wordsAs psychotherapy addresses mental suffering, cultivating the motives and competencies of compassion to self and others can be a central focus for psychotherapy.
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Without an inner secure base, distress and setbacks activate the threat system through harsh self-criticism.

Their wordsIn other words, when we are distressed, suffer setbacks, or disappointments rather than having an internal secure base and safe haven, we activate the threat system through harsh self-criticism

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