25: Paul Gilbert on Restoring Sanity with Mindful Compassion

Noble Mind

In this episode, we talk to Professor Paul Gilbert, the developer of compassion-focused therapy. We discuss evolutionary psychology, shame, and how mindful compassion can restore sanity to destructive and competitive human impulses.

Paul Gilbert, FBPsS, PhD, OBE is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Derby and Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Derbyshire Health Care Foundation Trust. He has researched evolutionary approaches to psychopathology for over 35 years with a special focus on shame and the treatment of shame based difficulties, for which compassion focused therapy (CFT) was developed. He has written and edited 20 books and established the Compassionate Mind Foundation in 2006. He was awarded an OBE in March 2011.

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