Compassion : concepts, research and applications / edited by Paul Gilbert.

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Book
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English
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1 edition.
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
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xii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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    Paul Gilbert brings together an international line-up of leading scholars and researchers in the field to provide a state-of-the-art exploration of key areas in compassion research and applications. Compassion can be seen as a core element of prosocial behaviour, and explorations of the concepts and value of compassion have been extended into different aspects of life including physical and psychological therapies, schools, leadership and business. While many animals share abilities to be distress sensitive and caring of others, it is our newly evolved, socially intelligent abilities that make us capable of knowingly and deliberately helping others and purposely developing skills and wisdom to do so. This book generates many research questions whilst exploring the similarities and differences of human compassion to non-human caring and looks at how compassion changes the brain and body, affects genetic expression, manifests at a young age and is then cultivated (or not) by the social environment. Compassion: Concepts, Research and Applications will be essential reading for professionals, researchers and scholars interested in compassion and its applications in psychology and psychotherapy. Book jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Preface
    • Evolution and the nature of compassion
    • Compassion : definitions and controversies / Paul Gilbert
    • Prehistoric origins : the compassion of far distant strangers / Penny Spikins
    • Compassion as a social mentality : an evolutionary approach / Paul Gilbert
    • Mindfulness and compassion : similarities and differences / Christopher Germer and Thorsten Barnhofer
    • Compassion and its physiologies
    • The body of compassion / Jennifer S. Mascaro and Charles L. Raison
    • The psychobiological foundation of prosocial relationships : the role of oxytocin in daily social exchanges / Valentina Colonnello, Nicola Petrocchi and Markus Heinrichs
    • Compassion in the autonomic nervous system : the role of the vagus nerve / Jennifer E. Stellar and Dacher Keltner
    • Compassion and the brain / Pascal Vrtička, Pauline Favre and Tania Singer
    • Behavior genetics of prosocial behavior / Christopher C. Conway and George M. Slavich
    • Compassion and relationships
    • Evolution, child raising, and compassionate morality / Darcia Narvaez
    • An attachment perspective on compassion and altruism / Mario Mikulincer and Philip R. Shaver
    • Broaden-and-build theory meets interpersonal neurobiology as a lens on compassion and positivity resonance / Barbara L. Fredrickson and Daniel J. Siegel
    • Applying compassion
    • Positive leadership, power and compassion / Daniel Martin and Yotam Heineberg
    • Compassionate leadership for compassionate health care / Michael A. West and Rachna Chowla
    • The emergence of the compassion focused therapies / James N. Kirby and Paul Gilbert.
    ISBN
    • 9781138957183 ((hardback))
    • 1138957186 ((hardback))
    • 9781138957190 ((pbk.))
    • 1138957194 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2016050975
    OCLC
    957241901
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