The Neuroscience of Empathy, Compassion, and Self-Compassion (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Stevens, Larry Charles; Woodruff, C. Chad

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Neuroscience of Empathy, Compassion, and Self-Compassion provides contemporary perspectives on the three related domains of empathy, compassion and self-compassion (ECS). It informs current research, stimulates further research endeavors, and encourages continued and creative philosophical and scientific inquiry into the critical societal constructs of ECS. Examining the growing number of electrocortical (EEG Power Spectral, Coherence, Evoked Potential, etc.) studies and the sizeable body of exciting neuroendocrine research (e.g., oxytocin, dopamine, etc.) that have accumulated over decades, this reference is a unique and comprehensive approach to empathy, compassion and self-compassion.

• Provides perspectives on empathy, compassion and self-compassion (ECS), including discussions of cruelty, torture, killings, homicides, suicides, terrorism and other examples of empathy/compassion erosion
• Addresses autonomic nervous system (vagal) reflections of ECS
• Discusses recent findings and understanding of ECS from mirror neuron research
• Covers neuroendocrine manifestations of ECS and self-compassion and the neuroendocrine enhancement
• Examines the neuroscience research on the enhancement of ECS
• Includes directed-meditations (mindfulness, mantra, Metta, etc.) and their effects on ECS and the brain

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 353
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780128098387
• Artikelnr.: 50473896

Autorenporträt

Larry Stevens' primary interests are in teaching and research in the broad sub-specialty of health psychology and behavioral medicine. He coordinates a very active undergraduate and graduate research program in the psychophysiology of altered states of consciousness, of compassion, of psychotherapy techniques, and particularly in clinical hypnosis. He uses electroencephalography (EEG) and EEG neuroimaging techniques to measure and to display brain changes from a variety of states of consciousness. Dr. Stevens is the principal investigator and program coordinator of the department's National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored summer undergraduate research internships into the Social Psychophysiology of Compassion. Each summer, he leads a team of faculty mentors and eight undergraduate interns from across the country in the conduct of social and psychophysiological research into the cortical, physiological, and psychosocial underpinnings of compassionate behavior. Research outcome

s are presented each year at local, regional, and national (APA) conferences.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What Is This Feeling That I Have for Myself and for Others? Contemporary Perspectives on Empathy, Compassion, and Self-Compassion, and Their Absence
2. The Brain That Makes Us Concerned for Others: Toward a Neuroscience of Empathy
3. The Brain that Longs to Help Others: The Current Neuroscience of Compassion
4. The Brain That Longs to Help Itself: The Current Neuroscience of Self-Compassion
5. Sometimes I Get So Mad I Could .: The Neuroscience of Cruelty
6. Reflections of Others and of Self: The Mirror Neuron System's Relationship to Empathy
7. Why does it feel so good to care for others, but only sometimes for myself?
8. Can We Change Our Mind About Caring for Others? The Neuroscience of Systematic Compassion Training
9. Compassion Training from an Early Buddhist Perspective: The Neurological Concomitants of the Brahmaviharas
10. The Language and Structure of Social Cognition: An Integrative Process of Becoming the Other
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