Multiple emotions, multiple selves: compassion focused therapy chairwork
Journal article
Authors | Bell, Tobyn, Montague, Jane, Elander, James and Gilbert, Paul |
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Abstract | Compassion focused therapy (CFT) is rooted in an evolutionary view of the human mind as formed of a multitude of contrasting, and often conflicting, motivations, emotions and competencies. A core aim of the therapy is to help clients understand the nature of their mind in a way that is de-pathologizing and de-shaming. The approach is also focused on the cultivation of compassion to work with these difficult aspects of mind. CFT includes the ‘multiple-selves’ intervention which involves the differentiation of threat-based emotion and an exploration of their conflict. Compassion is then applied to the client’s |
Keywords | Chairwork; Compassion; Compassion focused therapy; Depression; Interpretative phenomenological analysis |
Year | 2021 |
Journal | The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist |
Journal citation | 14 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
ISSN | 1754-470X |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1017/s1754470x21000180 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/625906 |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
hdl:10545/625906 | |
Publication dates | 19 Jul 2021 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 30 Jul 2021, 11:15 |
Accepted | 19 May 2021 |
Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
Contributors | University of Derby |
File | File Access Level Open |
File | File Access Level Open |
File | File Access Level Open |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/933w1/multiple-emotions-multiple-selves-compassion-focused-therapy-chairwork
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