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Dr. Paul Gilbert
PAUL GILBERT is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Derby in Britain and the Director of Mental Health Research for the Derbyshire Mental Health Services Trust. He has written or edited 20 books on topics including depression, shame, and compassion. He has contributed more than 35 book chapters, authored or co-authored 90 journal articles, and given dozens of workshops.
Recent titles include: Psychotherapy & Counselling for Depression, 3rd edition (Sage 2007); The Therapeutic Relationship in the Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapies (with Robert Leahy, Routledge, 2007); Compassion: Conceptualisations, Research and Use in Psychotherapy (Brunner-Routledge, 2005); Shame: Inter-personal Behaviour, Psychopathology and Culture (with B. Andrews, Oxford University Press 1998); and Body Shame: Conceptualisations, Research & Treatment (with J Miles, Brunner-Routledge, 2002). Forthcoming books include Compassion Focused Therapy: Distinctive Features (Brunner-Routledge 2008), and Developing Your Compassionate Mind, a self-help book due out in April 2009.
He is a past-president of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies and is a peer reviewer for the British Journal of Psychiatry. He is Associate Editor of the British Psychological Society journal Psychology and Psychotherapy, and of the International Cognitive Therapy Association journal International Journal of Cognitive Therapy. In July of 2007 he established The Compassionate Mind Foundation, a charity to “Promote Wellbeing through the Scientific Understanding & Application of Compassion”. See www.compassionatemind.co.uk. |
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To learn more about Dr. Gilbert and his work with compassion, please go to his website at www.compassionatemind.co.uk. |
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