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Emotional memory, mindfulness and compassion
pp. 99-110
Abstract
This chapter considers the role that mindfulness and compassion can play in helping people who come from difficult and traumatic backgrounds. These individuals often have a highly elevated sense of threat – both from the outside (what others might do to them) and from the inside (feeling overwhelmed by aversive feelings or memories; or their own selfdislike/ contempt for themselves). The basic view is that traumatic backgrounds sensitise people to become overly reliant on processing from their threat systems.
Publication details
Published in:
Didonna Fabrizio (2009) Clinical handbook of mindfulness. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 99-110
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09593-6_7
Full citation:
Gilbert Paul (2009) „Emotional memory, mindfulness and compassion“, In: F. Didonna (ed.), Clinical handbook of mindfulness, Dordrecht, Springer, 99–110.