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"This is an important book for all professions in the caring services, not just those who will be practicing or benefiting from compassion focused therapy." - Peter Gilbert, Review of the Month, British Journal of Wellbeing, Vol. 1 No. 8, November 2010
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Research into the beneficial effect of developing compassion has advanced enormously in the last ten years, with the development of inner compassion being an important therapeutic focus and goal. This book explains how Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) – a process of developing compassion for the self and others to increase well-being and aid recovery – varies from other forms of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
Comprising 30 key points this book explores the founding principles of CFT and outlines the detailed aspects of compassion in the CFT approach. Divided into two parts – Theory and Compassion Practice – this concise book provides a clear guide to the distinctive characteristics of CFT.
Compassion Focused Therapy will be a valuable source for students and professionals in training as well as practising therapists who want to learn more about the distinctive features of CFT.
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This book is very readable. Paul Gilbert explains very clearly why conventional CBT often fails to work, and grounds his compassion focused therapy in research, and also neuro- science. I found that this book was very clear and very informative. For me the most important insigts in the book, were his recognition that our Brains have different processing systems, and that different therapies can access different systems. Conventional CBT utilises the neo-cortex, and acts as a regulator of emotions, while more experiential therapies, ( MBCT) access other processing parts of the brain. I also realised as well, how I can better intergrate some CBT ideas into my own therapy practise.
One of my main objections to CBT was that the theory that explained it, ( eg distorted cognitions causing psychological disturbance) to be deaply flawed. This of course is true. However the insight that CBT techniques can regulate, difficult emotions, was very useful since sometimes regulations of difficult emotional states canrepresent a quick fix, when processessing is not possible. I found this a very good read, and feel that CFT represents an advanced form of therapy within the CBT Family of therapies.
One of my main objections to CBT was that the theory that explained it, ( eg distorted cognitions causing psychological disturbance) to be deaply flawed. This of course is true. However the insight that CBT techniques can regulate, difficult emotions, was very useful since sometimes regulations of difficult emotional states canrepresent a quick fix, when processessing is not possible. I found this a very good read, and feel that CFT represents an advanced form of therapy within the CBT Family of therapies.
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I am a great fan of Gilbert,s work and as a CBT therapist greatly recommend his insights. This is a great concise introduction to his work.
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A pithy and effective introduction to Compassion-Focused Therapy
23 Sep 2010
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This book serves as an excellent introduction to the theory and practice of Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT), a model of psychotherapy based in Professor Paul Gilbert's Compassionate Mind model. This model, rooted in evolutionary psychology, affective neuroscience, and social psychology, makes a major theoretical contribution toward understanding psychological difficulties and helping people to change how they relate to them. The book,is divided into two sections, the first providing an excellent overview of the theoretical model underlying CFT, and the second providing a nice set of techniques to be used in the therapy.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I should say that I am far from being an unbiased reviewer. I am currently using compassion-focused therapy in both individual and group therapy formats, and am authoring a book applying the model to working with anger. The group (focused on anger) is currently being conducted in a medium-security correctional facility, and I cannot over-emphasize the effectiveness of this model in terms of its benefit to the men I'm working with. In a prison environment, these men are actively using the combination of the purposeful cultivation of compassion and contemporary psychological techniques to transform their lives. It is profound. This model is already a well-respected and increasingly used therapy in the UK, and it deserves to be much more well known here in the United States and elsewhere. I've also used it with excellent results with individual psychotherapy cases involving depression and anxiety in non-correctional settings.
For a more complete description of the Compassionate Mind model, please see my review of Gilbert's "The Compassionate Mind." I will say here, however, that CFT is not a stand-alone therapy model, not another therapy to be added to the growing list of empirically supported treatments (although it is supported by an evolving literature base). Rather, it provides a model for understanding psychological distress that is intensely pragmatic, theoretically sound, based in good science...and which is entirely compatible with most other effective treatment models. The model on which it is based provides patients with a way of understanding their suffering that is non-shaming and non-blaming, and in doing so helps patients approach their difficulties head-on using any number of techniques. I have found it to be the single most effective approach for working with experiential avoidance that I have ever encountered. Because of this, Gilbert's approach helps to magnify the effectiveness of a wide variety of therapeutic strategies by increasing the patient's ability to relate to their suffering in helpful ways and to utilize the techniques effectively. CFT makes heavy use of mindfulness training and includes techniques specifically designed to take advantage of what we know about contemporary affective neuroscience, particularly with regard to Oxytocin and the neuroscience of affiliation.
Specifically with regard to this book, in my opinion it is the perfect introduction to CFT. Organized in a number of relatively short, pithy chapters, it presents the model's fairly detailed theoretical foundation in bite-sized chunks, perfect for experienced clinicians and graduate students alike. I highly recommend it for any clinicians who work with patients struggling with affective difficulties, particularly those who utilize mindfulness approaches, ACT, DBT, and other CBT models. I'm planning to use it as a text in a seminar. And at $14, you can get it for the price of a few cups of coffee. Highly recommended.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I should say that I am far from being an unbiased reviewer. I am currently using compassion-focused therapy in both individual and group therapy formats, and am authoring a book applying the model to working with anger. The group (focused on anger) is currently being conducted in a medium-security correctional facility, and I cannot over-emphasize the effectiveness of this model in terms of its benefit to the men I'm working with. In a prison environment, these men are actively using the combination of the purposeful cultivation of compassion and contemporary psychological techniques to transform their lives. It is profound. This model is already a well-respected and increasingly used therapy in the UK, and it deserves to be much more well known here in the United States and elsewhere. I've also used it with excellent results with individual psychotherapy cases involving depression and anxiety in non-correctional settings.
For a more complete description of the Compassionate Mind model, please see my review of Gilbert's "The Compassionate Mind." I will say here, however, that CFT is not a stand-alone therapy model, not another therapy to be added to the growing list of empirically supported treatments (although it is supported by an evolving literature base). Rather, it provides a model for understanding psychological distress that is intensely pragmatic, theoretically sound, based in good science...and which is entirely compatible with most other effective treatment models. The model on which it is based provides patients with a way of understanding their suffering that is non-shaming and non-blaming, and in doing so helps patients approach their difficulties head-on using any number of techniques. I have found it to be the single most effective approach for working with experiential avoidance that I have ever encountered. Because of this, Gilbert's approach helps to magnify the effectiveness of a wide variety of therapeutic strategies by increasing the patient's ability to relate to their suffering in helpful ways and to utilize the techniques effectively. CFT makes heavy use of mindfulness training and includes techniques specifically designed to take advantage of what we know about contemporary affective neuroscience, particularly with regard to Oxytocin and the neuroscience of affiliation.
Specifically with regard to this book, in my opinion it is the perfect introduction to CFT. Organized in a number of relatively short, pithy chapters, it presents the model's fairly detailed theoretical foundation in bite-sized chunks, perfect for experienced clinicians and graduate students alike. I highly recommend it for any clinicians who work with patients struggling with affective difficulties, particularly those who utilize mindfulness approaches, ACT, DBT, and other CBT models. I'm planning to use it as a text in a seminar. And at $14, you can get it for the price of a few cups of coffee. Highly recommended.
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