What Paul Gilbert thinks about Psychotherapy
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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3 dated positions, 2019 to 2020, in their own words. Our reading of what Paul Gilbert has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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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 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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Our readingTherapies 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