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Keep up to date with our latest blogs on all things Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), self-compassion, mental well being and happiness
What to Expect: Getting Help from Balanced Minds
When it comes to the treatment of psychological difficulties, there is an often complicated and overwhelming wealth of literature regarding what does and doesn’t work. One thing is for certain, however, the way we treat ourselves and others struggling with...
Cultivating a Healthy Sense of Self
It is important to be compassionate, not just to others but ourselves too, and in doing so we can begin to cultivate a healthy sense of self. A compassionate understanding of who we are, what we do, and what we are capable of, is necessary to ensuring that going...
The Role of Compassion in Recovering from Trauma
Compassion is a powerful tool for therapists as whole, but also people in general. Compassion can turn a bad day into a good day, a terrible week into one that looks better than the last. Compassion Focussed Therapy has proven to have powerful and lasting results for...
The Importance of Cultivating Self-Compassion
In a world so readily available, so well connected, it is easy to neglect what it is that we actually need. Whilst many people are able to turn their compassion outwards, we tend to find it harder to giver ourselves the care and attention required in order to thrive....
Dr Chris Irons – Interview
Dr Chris Irons – Interview Chris Irons will be hosting our event on 25th June on working with shame through Compassion Focused Therapy Chris Irons has been one of the leading figures in the modern development of the CFT model. He’s becoming a regular for Brighton...
Link between social rank (sense of power and status) and mental health
Interesting overview of recent paper looking at the association between power and social dominance, and mental health difficulties http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/16/money-power-mental-health_n_6297946.html
All for avatar therapy (voices) as long as research is open-minded about mechanisms and outcomes
The intriguing 'avatar therapy' study was extensively covered last week, e.g. by the BBC, Guardian, and Mail. This Wellcome-funded study seems an excellent opportunity to put therapeutic dialoguing techniques on the map of mainstream psychosis treatment. However, it...
The Science of Compassion in ‘The Independent’
Here's the link to a newspaper article on 'The Science of Compassion': http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/the-science-of-compassion-8376224.html?origin=internalSearch
Helpful v unhelpful psychosis study in Wired magazine
Link to article on wired.co.uk entitled "The religious are all psychotic (in a good way)": http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/07/ideas-bank/the-religious-are-all-psychotic-(in-a-good-way)