Paul Gilbert
British clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Derby who founded compassion-focused therapy, explaining shame and self-criticism through evolved threat, drive and soothing systems; founded the Compassionate Mind Foundation in 2006.
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Many typical forms of oppressive behaviour stem from evolved 'control and hold' resource strategies.
Their wordsThese re-introduced competing for, rather than sharing of, resources and advantaged those who now pursue (often aggressively) control and hold strategies. Many of our most typical forms of oppressive and anti-compassionate behavior are the result of these strategies.
↗Creating a Compassionate World: Addressing the Conflicts Between Sharing and Caring Versus Controlling and Holding Evolved Strategiesfrontiersin.org All 3 from this paper
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Their wordsboth wealth and poverty change the brain.
↗Creating a Compassionate World: Addressing the Conflicts Between Sharing and Caring Versus Controlling and Holding Evolved Strategiesfrontiersin.org All 3 from this paper
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Their wordsOne of the challenges to creating a more compassionate society is to find ways to create the social and economic conditions that regulate control and hold strategies and promote care and share.
↗Creating a Compassionate World: Addressing the Conflicts Between Sharing and Caring Versus Controlling and Holding Evolved Strategiesfrontiersin.org All 3 from this paper
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Their wordsAs psychotherapy addresses mental suffering, cultivating the motives and competencies of compassion to self and others can be a central focus for psychotherapy.
↗Compassion: From Its Evolution to a Psychotherapyfrontiersin.org All 2 from this paper
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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
↗Compassion: From Its Evolution to a Psychotherapyfrontiersin.org All 2 from this paper
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Their wordsFragmentation of processes and interventions plague the psychotherapies (Gilbert & Kirby, 2019). Part of the problem is that we have not agreed on a framework that could be the basis for integrating knowledge and the scientific enquiry of processes and interventions.
↗Psychotherapy for the 21st century: An integrative, evolutionary, contextual, biopsychosocial approachdoi.org All 3 from this paper
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Therapies of the future should focus more on morality and promoting prosocial, ethical behaviour.
Their wordsTherapies of the future will also focus more on the moral aspects of therapy and address the need to promote prosocial and ethical behaviour to self and others.
↗Psychotherapy for the 21st century: An integrative, evolutionary, contextual, biopsychosocial approachdoi.org All 3 from this paper
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Their wordsAn obvious reason for human suffering is because we are biologically created beings with built‐in mechanisms for physical and psychological pain, decay, and death.
↗Psychotherapy for the 21st century: An integrative, evolutionary, contextual, biopsychosocial approachdoi.org All 3 from this paper