Chris Irons Bücher

Mitgefühl zu kultivieren – für sich selbst und andere – hat einen tiefgreifenden Einfluss auf unser Leben. Es führt nicht nur dazu, dass wir glücklicher und resilienter werden, sondern hilft auch bei zahlreichen psychischen Problemen wie Minderwertigkeitskomplexen, Scham und Selbstkritik, ebenso bei Angst- und Essstörungen. Dieses Buch bietet ein praktisches Mitgefühlstraining. Basierend auf der Compassionate Focused Therapy, CFT, die Neurowissenschaft, Erkenntnisse über Emotionsregulation und Achtsamkeit verbindet, eignet es sich als Begleitung und Unterstützung einer Psychotherapie sowie für die eigene Selbsterfahrung. Sie erarbeiten sich Schritt für Schritt eine innere, mitfühlende Haltung: Sie entwickeln Verständnis und Mitgefühl für sich selbst Sie lernen, sich für das Mitgefühl anderer zu öffnen und Mitgefühl für andere zu empfinden. Mit zahlreichen Übungen, Arbeitsblättern, Fallgeschichten und praktischen Anleitungen.

It has been estimated that depression may affect 12-18% of people at some point during their lifetime. This accessible introduction covers the causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of clinical depression, and is engaging reading for anyone wishing to understand this complex mental health problem.

Emotions bring purpose, pleasure and meaning to our lives. However, for many people, they are synonymous with distress, pain and suffering. Anger and rage can wreck relationships and cause problems at work; anxiety can prevent us from socialising or engaging in things we would like to; sadness can feel overwhelming and never ending. These types of difficulties are often referred to as emotion regulation problems, and can prevent us from developing stable and happy relationships, communicating our needs, and flourishing. This practical self-help book based on Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) will help you to take a new approach to managing difficult emotions. It outlines why we experience emotions, how they can be helpful but also how and why we can get in to struggles with them. It outlines the Compassionate Mind model, and guides you through a series of exercises that will help you to develop your compassion mind, and use this to develop more helpful emotion regulation strategies, and bring greater balance to your emotions.

Student life can be stressful and demanding. Whether entering university for the first time or embarking on a postgraduate course there are numerous challenges to deal with. This book will help readers to better understand what happens when we experience stress and what triggers these feelings. It will also introduce techniques which will help readers to manage the challenges of university life.

There is good and increasing evidence that cultivating compassion for one's self and others can have a profound impact on our physiological, psychological and social processes. In contrast, concerns with inferiority, shame and self-criticism can have very negative impacts on these processes and are associated with poorer physical and mental health.The Compassionate Mind Workbook is for anyone who is interested in how compassion - in the form of ideas and practices derived from Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and other approaches - may help us to engage with, understand and ultimately, try to alleviate suffering.CFT utilises both Buddhist practices and Western psychological science. It draws on neuroscience, insights into emotion regulation and identity formation, interpersonal psychology and a range of psychotherapeutic models. CFT-based interventions can help people with a range of mental health problems develop compassion for themselves, be open to the compassion of others and develop compassion for others.This workbook is a step-by-step guide to CFT, in which the chapters build your understanding of yourself, the skills that give rise to a compassionate mind, and ways to work with whatever difficulties you're struggling with in life. The exercises, prompts and case stories in this book provide an understandable and practical way to develop compassion.