Russell Kolts

Anger is one of the most difficult emotions for human beings to cope with. If our anger is unmanaged, we can end up behaving in destructive ways towards both ourselves and other people, and can face relationship difficulties and negative health consequences. Far from 'letting ourselves off the hook', recent research has shown that by developing compassion towards ourselves and others and compassionately understanding our anger and the factors that fuel it, we can connect with the courage and skills needed to change our behaviour. This fascinating and practical self-help guide will give you a number of powerful techniques for tackling your anger head on and taking control of it, rather than letting it control you. USING THIS WORKBOOK, READERS WILL LEARN ABOUT: - The factors that trigger and fuel our anger, how it works and how to change the anger response - Specific skills to manage anger and improve relationships Filled with interactive exercises and practical skills, The Anger Workbook will guide you in your journey to transform your anger into inner strength. THE COMPASSIONATE MIND APPROACH The self-help books in this series are based on compassion focused therapy (CFT, developed by series editor Paul Gilbert). This brings together an understanding of how our mind can cause us difficulties but also provides us with a powerful solution in the shape of mindfulness and compassion. It teaches ways to stimulate the part of the brain connected with kindness, warmth, compassion and safeness, and to calm the part that makes us feel, anxious, angry, sad or depressed.

Detta är en klinisk handbok som steg för steg visar hur terapeuter kan arbeta med compassionfokuseradterapi (CFT), både som enda behandling och som komplement. Forskningen och teorierna bakom CFT – bland annat evolutionspsykologi, anknytningsteori och affektiv neurovetenskap – är komplexa, men förmedlas här på ett tillgängligt sätt.En stor fördel med boken är många kliniska exempel och terapidialoger som konkretiserar och exemplifierar metoden. Här finns verktyg för att hjälpa klienter att utveckla självmedkänsla, lära sig mindfulness och reglera svåra känslor.CFT helt enkelt har ett förord av Paul Gilbert (som skapat CFT) och ett efterord av Steven Hayes. Boken är anpassad till svenska förhållanden och har ett förord av leg. psykolog Sofia Viotti.

Created by world-renowned psychologist Paul Gilbert, compassion-focused therapy (CFT) is extremely effective in helping clients work through painful feelings of shame and self-criticism. However, the theoretical aspects of this therapy-such as evolutionary psychology, attachment theory, and affective neuroscience-can make CFT difficult to grasp. This book provides everything you need to start implementing CFT in practice, either as a primary therapy modality or as an adjunctive approach to other therapies, such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and more.CFT has unique strengths, and is especially effective in helping clients work through troubling thoughts and behaviors, approach themselves and others with greater compassion and kindness, and feel safer and more confident in their ability to handle life's challenges and difficulties. This book articulates the theoretical basis of the therapy in simple, easy-to-follow language, and offers practical guidance and strategies on how to tailor your CFT approach to specific client populations.As a clinician interested in the benefits of CFT but wary of the dense theoretical principles that lay behind it, you need a user-friendly guide that will let you hit the ground running. CFT Made Simple is that guide.

Delightful and beautifully written everyday lessons on compassion.

An invaluable self-help guide for recognising personal anger problems, what lies behind that anger and how to deal with it using Compassion Focused Therapy