Compassion Focused Therapy

[Professor Yaffle]

Does anyone know anything about Compassion Focused Therapy/Compassionate Mind Training? I know there is little in the way of research into it so far, but is the suff they are basing it on (like when they mention different affect systems) sound?

http://www.compassionatemind.co.uk/resources/Compassion_Group_Therapy_Paper.pdf

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7XtYXeGHz8UC&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205&dq=compassion+focused+therapy&source=bl&ots=X-Eq-CqQtW&sig=qZzs-8gruijbBD_t0RR-MVrAzDs&hl=en&ei=bGYeSsWwBMKMjAe9pvmRDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4

[Soapy Sam]

I read the first reference.
The only bit I understand is where they claim that parental care for the young was a mammal development. That's simply wrong. Birds and some reptiles take great care of infants.
It's not a serious criticism of their main points, but when the one bit you know about is wrong, it makes you wonder about the rest.

[Roma]

Where is the scientific, evidence based data for this "therapy" (gag):

"whose problems tend to be chronic,......Six patients attending a cognitive–behavioural-based day..... Results showed significant ?..... There was also a significant ?....Compassionate mind training may be a ? useful addition for some patients ?"

[Professor Yaffle]

Where is the scientific, evidence based data for this "therapy" (gag):

"whose problems tend to be chronic,......Six patients attending a cognitive–behavioural-based day..... Results showed significant ?..... There was also a significant ?....Compassionate mind training may be a ? useful addition for some patients ?"

Well I already said I knew it didn't have much in the way of research. I was more interested in whether the theoretical underpinnings were basically sound.

The reason I am interested is that my CBT therapist went on a workshop about it a couple of weeks ago, and a lot of what they said reminded him of me (eg being able to formulate balanced thoughts which we bunderstand are true intellectually, but it having no effect on emotion, and having high levels of self criticism etc) and he wondered if I might benefit from such an approach.

[Dancing David]

That is a lot to read. Might be interesting.

i saw the bit about six patients as well.

reminds me of my group days

"To thine own self be gentle."