My interview with Prof. Gilbert continues. Previous part was published earlier today. Prof. Gilbert, the way I understand it, compassion means “a sensitivity to suffering in self and others with a ...

Compassion is being studied and used as an evidence-based ingredient in effective psychotherapy more than ever before. This might not seem surprising, given that practicing compassion has been at the ...

Shame is a very painful experience involving complex emotions such as anxiety, anger, and disgust, and an intense sense of self as flawed or bad, with a sense of interpersonal threat of rejection or ...

I became familiar with Prof. Gilbert’s work many years ago when I came across his articles on shame and compassion, and later his popular book The Compassionate Mind. 3 In the second chapter of that ...