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Compassion

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Compassion book

Concepts, Research and Applications

Compassion

DOI link for Compassion

Compassion book

Concepts, Research and Applications
Edited ByPaul Gilbert
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 21 April 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315564296
Pages 310 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315564296
SubjectsBehavioral Sciences
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Gilbert, P. (Ed.). (2017). Compassion. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315564296

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 similarity 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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part I|86 pages

Evolution and the nature of compassion

chapter 1|13 pages

Compassion

Definitions and controversies
ByPaul Gilbert

chapter 2|15 pages

Prehistoric origins

The compassion of far distant strangers
ByPenny Spikins

chapter 3|38 pages

Compassion as a social mentality

An evolutionary approach
ByPaul Gilbert

chapter 4|18 pages

Mindfulness and compassion

Similarities and differences
ByChristopher Germer, Thorsten Barnhofer

part II|84 pages

Compassion and its physiologies

chapter 5|16 pages

The body of compassion

ByJennifer S. Mascaro, Charles L. Raison

chapter 6|15 pages

The psychobiological foundation of prosocial relationships

The role of oxytocin in daily social exchanges
ByValentina Colonnello, Nicola Petrocchi, Markus Heinrichs

chapter 7|15 pages

Compassion in the autonomic nervous system

The role of the vagus nerve
ByJennifer E. Stellar, Dacher Keltner

chapter 8|16 pages

Compassion and the brain

ByPascal Vrtička, Pauline Favre, Tania Singer

chapter 9|20 pages

Behavior genetics of prosocial behavior

ByChristopher C. Conway, George M. Slavich

part III|47 pages

Compassion and relationships

chapter 10|14 pages

Evolution, child raising, and compassionate morality

ByDarcia Narvaez

chapter 11|16 pages

An attachment perspective on compassion and altruism

ByMario Mikulincer, Philip R. Shaver

chapter 12|15 pages

Broaden-and-build theory meets interpersonal neurobiology as a lens on compassion and positivity resonance

ByBarbara L. Fredrickson, Daniel J. Siegel

part IV|67 pages

Applying compassion

chapter 13|16 pages

Positive leadership, power and compassion

ByDaniel Martin, Yotam Heineberg

chapter 14|21 pages

Compassionate leadership for compassionate health care

ByMichael A. West, Rachna Chowla

chapter 15|28 pages

The emergence of the compassion focused therapies

ByJames N. Kirby, Paul Gilbert
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