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Choose compassion : why it matters and how it works / James Kirby

Author
Kirby, James, Dr
Published
St Lucia, Queensland, Australia : University of Queensland Press, 2022.
Copyright Date
©2022
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Contents
Cover -- Praise for Choose Compassion -- Author biography -- Title page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue -- Chapter 1: What is compassion? -- Chapter 2: The things that move us -- Chapter 3: Thinking our way to compassion -- Chapter 4: Compassion in the family -- Chapter 5: Fears of compassion -- Chapter 6: Training compassion -- Chapter 7: The difficulties of self-compassion -- Chapter 8: The anatomy of suffering -- Chapter 9: When compassion collapses -- Chapter 10: Compassionate contradictions -- Chapter 11: Compassion around the world -- Chapter 12: The future of compassion and Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Imprint page
Summary
Australia's leading compassion researcher explores the challenges of becoming a more compassionate person and developing a more compassionate society. Drawing on his many years of experience as a clinical psychologist and researcher, Dr James Kirby brings together hard science and real-life examples to offer a guide to a more compassionate life and society. Kirby debunks the myth that compassion is simply a feeling and shows us how it is a motivational force that can shape our behaviour and relationships with each other and the world. He considers how it might help with self-criticism, parenting and grief, and he explores what part artificial intelligence might play in a compassionate future. -- Publisher.
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0702267104
9780702267109 (electronic bk.)
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Title from cover page (viewed on September 27, 2022).
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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