Choose Compassion
eBook - ePub

Choose Compassion

Why it matters and how it works

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  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Choose Compassion

Why it matters and how it works

About this book

When you think of compassion, what comes to mind? Kindness, understanding, tenderness, empathy, maybe warmth? Compassion can be all those things – but it is much more. 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. In this engaging and timely book, Kirby traverses philosophy, psychology and pop culture to show how we can choose compassion to make our lives healthier, happier and more meaningful.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for Choose Compassion
  3. Author biography
  4. Title page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Prologue
  8. Chapter 1: What is compassion?
  9. Chapter 2: The things that move us
  10. Chapter 3: Thinking our way to compassion
  11. Chapter 4: Compassion in the family
  12. Chapter 5: Fears of compassion
  13. Chapter 6: Training compassion
  14. Chapter 7: The difficulties of self-compassion
  15. Chapter 8: The anatomy of suffering
  16. Chapter 9: When compassion collapses
  17. Chapter 10: Compassionate contradictions
  18. Chapter 11: Compassion around the world
  19. Chapter 12: The future of compassion
  20. Epilogue
  21. Acknowledgements
  22. Notes
  23. Imprint page