The neuroscience of empathy, compassion, and self-compassion. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Larry Charles Stevens, C. Chad Woodruff.
• Editors: Stevens, Larry Charles; Woodruff, C. Chad
• Contents: 1. What Is This Feeling That I Have for Myself and for Others? Contemporary Perspectives on Empathy, Compassion, and Self-Compassion, and Their Absence LARRY STEVENS, C. CHAD WOODRUFF 2. The Brain That Makes Us Concerned for Others: Toward a Neuroscience of Empathy VERA FLASBECK, CRISTINA GONZALEZ-LIENCRES, MARTIN BRÜNE 3. The Brain that Longs to Help Others: The Current Neuroscience of Compassion LARRY STEVENS, JASMINE BENJAMIN 4. The Brain That Longs to Help Itself: The Current Neuroscience of Self-Compassion LARRY STEVENS, MARK GAUTHIER-BRAHAM, BENJAMIN BUSH 5. Sometimes I Get So Mad I Could …: The Neuroscience of Cruelty TAYLOR N. WEST, LEAH SAVERY, ROBERT J. GOODMAN 6. Reflections of Others and of Self: The Mirror Neuron System’s Relationship to Empathy C. CHAD WOODRUFF 7. Why does it feel so good to care for others, but only sometimes for myself? MELISSA BIRKETT, JONI SASAKI 8. Can We Change Our Mind About Caring for Others? The Neuroscience of Systematic Compassion Training ADAM CALDERON, TODD AHERN, THOMAS PRUZINSKY 9. Compassion Training from an Early Buddhist Perspective: The Neurological Concomitants of the Brahmavihāras ROBERT J. GOODMAN, PAUL E. PLONSKI, LEAH SAVERY 10. The Language and Structure of Social Cognition: An Integrative Process of Becoming the Other J.A. PINEDA, FIZA SINGH, KRISTINA CHEPAK 11. Where Caring for Self and Others’ Lives in the Brain, and How it can be Enhanced, and Diminished: Observations on the Neuroscience on Empathy, Compassion, and Self-Compassion C. CHAD WOODRUFF, LARRY STEVENS
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 612.8232; Emotions -- Physiological aspects; Empathy; Compassion; Self-acceptance; Neuropsychology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128098387
• Related ISBNs: 9780128098370
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