This ground-breaking new book combines the best of compassion-focused
therapy with the most effective mindfulness techniques. The result is an
extremely effective approach to overcoming everyday emotional and
psychological problems and improving one's sense of well being. Based on
the latest work from Professor Paul Gilbert OBE, best-selling author of
The Compassionate Mind, and Buddhist expert Choden.
Professor Gilbert has spent the past 20 years developing a new therapy
called Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) which has an gained
international following. In recent years, mindfulness is being used
increasingly to treat common mental health problems such as depression,
stress and stress-related insomnia. In this ground-breaking new
audiobook, Professor Gilbert, along with his co-author Choden, combines
the best of Compassion-Focused Therapy with the most effective
mindfulness techniques.
The result is an extremely effective approach to overcoming everyday
emotional and psychological problems and improving one's sense of
wellbeing. Professor Paul Gilbert OBE is world-renowned for his work on
depression, shame and self-criticism. He is head of the Mental Health
Research Unit, University of Derby. He is the author of the best-selling
The Compassionate Mind and Overcoming Depression. Choden: Formally a
monk for seven years within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Choden (aka
Sean McGovern) completed a three year, three month retreat in 1997 and
has been a practicing Buddhist since 1985. He is originally from South
Africa where he trained as a lawyer and where he learned meditation
under the guidance of Rob Nairn, an internationally renowned Buddhist
teacher. He is now involved in developing secular mindfulness and
compassion programmes drawing upon the wisdom and methods of the
Buddhist tradition, as well as contemporary insights from psychology and
neuroscience. He is an honorary fellow of the University of Aberdeen and
teaches on their Postgraduate Study Programme in Mindfulness (MSc) that
is the first of its kind to include compassion in its curriculum. He
lives on the Isle of Arran.
