The fostering of compassion in psychotherapy, healthcare and society in general has become a major area of interest in the last few years.
On Friday 5 December Professor Paul Glibert OBE from the University of Derby will be speaking about the challenge of developing the orientation to compassion in clinical psychology alongside its scientific and research focus.
His talk will discuss some of the issues and controversies of defining compassion and some processes that may underpin the ability to relate compassionately to ourselves and to others, including some of the fears blocks and resistances. Compassion promises to be an important focus for clinical psychology research and application in the years to come.
Throughout his career, Professor Paul Gilbert has focused on evolutionary mechanisms underpinning vulnerabilities to psychological problems with a specific focus on attachment and social ranking systems.
His major therapy work has been to develop better conceptual understanding and interventions from people who have high levels of shame and self-criticism. Twenty years ago he began to explore the value of developing compassion for people from troubled backgrounds, who have high shame and self-criticism and who find it very difficult to be kind and supportive to themselves.
With his patients, and from a variety of influences from standard psychotherapies, Buddhism, the neuroscience of emotion regulation, Professor Gilbert has developed an integrative multi-modal approach to therapy called Compassion Focused Therapy. Different groups around the world are now developing and investigating the efficacy of compassion focused therapy.
This free public lecture takes will take place from 3:20 to 4:20pm in the Raddison Blu Hotel, 301 Argyle Street, Glasgow.
Anyone can attend – and you are welcome to come at 3.00 for a cup of tea – but it would be a great help if you could register your intention to attend in advance.
This lecture is part of the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology.