Paul Gilbert
Biographic Data
| ID | 3636071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Gilbert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilbert |
| SIGNATURE | GILBERT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Derbyshire Healthcare National Health Service Foundation Trust, Derby, United Kingdom |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8150-7636 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Articuler deux savoirs, la science et la religion: À propos de J.-M. Maldamé, Science et religion. Une approche intercritique (2024)
Le dernier livre de Jean-Michel Maldamé affronte la question souvent difficile de la rencontre des travaux scientifiques et des attitudes religieuses. Plutôt que de voir une opposition dans cette difficulté, l’auteur y envisage la possibilité de relations entre la science et la religion
Quelle méthode pour penser le religieux en philosophe
Dans Sauver les phénomènes religieux , Jean Greisch propose une phénoménologie herméneutique de la religion en trois volets – un « excessif » qui anime nos vies finies, le nom de Dieu qui reste un mystère interpellant, l’appel à un « sauveur » qui exprime notre espérance – pour « sauver » ou garder en nous le don d’un sens essentiel aux phénomènes religieux. À travers une lecture critique de Heidegger, Ricœur et Marion, Greisch souligne en philos…
Ouvrages analysés
Le dernier livre de Jean-Michel Maldamé affronte la question souvent difficile de la rencontre des travaux scientifiques et des attitudes religieuses. Plutôt que de voir une opposition dans cette difficulté, l’auteur y envisage la possibilité de relations entre la science et la religion
Male Violence
Male Violence - 1 - Towards an integration
Unveiling the heart of young offenders: Testing the tripartite model of affect regulation in community and forensic male adolescents
Giving as “De-Risking: Philanthropy, Impact Investment and the Pandemic Response
This article examines the role played by philanthrocapitalist foundations in impact investing for international development, focusing on the covid -19 Vaccines Global Access Initiative ( covax ) as a response to the current pandemic. Philanthrocapitalists and development institutions are increasingly turning to “blended finance” and “social bonds” to address the gaps in funding required to meet global development agendas, particularly in the aren…
Effect of adding a compassion-focused intervention on emotion, eating and weight outcomes in a commercial weight management programme
This study examined whether adding a compassion-focused light touch digital intervention into a commercial multicomponent weight management programme improved eating behaviour, self-evaluation and weight-related outcomes. The compassion intervention significantly reduced binge eating symptomatology and dropout, and improved psychological adjustment and self-evaluation, but did not affect weight outcomes. Compassion, self-reassurance and reduction…
Fenomenología de la misericordia y el Evangelio
Misericordia significa “un corazón que es sensible a la miseria de los otros”. Esta definición pone de manifiesto la síntesis de actividad y pasividad ambivalente que caracteriza la relación entre el misericordioso y el mísero, al tiempo que, desde un punto de vista fenomenológico trae consigo interesantes consideraciones sobre del perdón o de la simpatía. No obstante, querer superar los límites de estas dos realidades, hasta el punto de ponerse …
Le Christianisme À Venir
Pour penser l’avenir, il convient d’examiner le présent, les mouvements qui s’y dessinent et qui laissent prévoir la formation du futur. En présentant quelques auteurs francophones qui ont tenté de discerner les enjeux vécus par l’Église depuis le concile Vatican II, l’article met en évidence l’importance de la rencontre de l’“autre” et de son écoute. Beaucoup d’auteurs critiquent en eff et l’Église offi cielle qui écoutait peu et imposait beauco…
Compassion: From Its Evolution to a Psychotherapy
The concept, benefits and recommendations for the cultivation of compassion have been recognized in the contemplative traditions for thousands of years. In the last 30 years or so, the study of compassion has revealed it to have major physiological and psychological effects influencing well-being, addressing mental health difficulties, and promoting prosocial behavior. This paper outlines an evolution informed biopsychosocial, multicomponent mode…
The development of compassionate engagement and action scales for self and others
Studies of the value of compassion on physical and mental health and social relationships have proliferated in the last 25 years. Although, there are several conceptualisations and measures of compassion, this study develops three new measures of compassion competencies derived from an evolutionary, motivational approach. The scales assess 1. the compassion we experience for others, 2. the compassion we experience from others, and 3. self-compass…
Depression: The Evolution of Powerlessness
Cultural Identity
CFT Made Simple: A Clinician's Guide to Practicing Compassion-Focused Therapy
Peoples, Cultures and Nations in Political Philosophy
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748610914); Wars of national secession and ethnic cleansing have disfigured recent years. These conflicts stem from claims that the same territory is occupied by separate 'peoples' for whom separate political arrangements should be made. Such claims are based on their supposedly distinct racial, ethnic, cultural or national identities. What, though, do such identities really amount to and what ought to be th…
Research with children
This chapter argues first that issues of working with children are unique. There are differences in the kinds of diseases that affect children, and critically in their abilities to answer questions and take part in research generally. Second, it describes some of the special considerations that need to be made when working with children, focusing on the advantages and disadvantages of using interviews, questionnaires or observational studies. Thi…
The origins and nature of compassion focused therapy
Compassion focused therapy ( CFT ) is rooted in an evolutionary, functional analysis of basic social motivational systems (e.g., to live in groups, form hierarchies and ranks, seek out sexual, partners help and share with alliances, and care for kin) and different functional emotional systems (e.g., to respond to threats, seek out resources, and for states of contentment/safeness). In addition, about 2 million years ago, (pre‐)humans began to evo…
Valuation Studies: A Collaborative Valuation in Practice
This discussion note provides a perspective on valuation studies by a group of PhD students. Based on impressions from the Valuation as Practice workshop at The University of Edinburgh in early 2014 we were inspired by the example of Kjellberg et al. (2013) to debate how we see, understand, and are inspired by the field of valuation studies. It is the hope of the editors that sharing the concerns of early-stage researchers starting out in a field…
Human Nature And Suffering
This volume explores the implications of humans as evolved social animals. Gilbert suggests that evolution has given rise to a varied set of social competencies which form the basis of our personal knowledge and understanding. These competencies are classified as: a) Care eliciting b) Care giving c) Co?operating and d) Competing. Each of these are seen as core schemata, or archetypal potentials around which knowledge is built, and from which, our…
The Language of Compassion in Acute Mental Health Care
In this article we examine the language of compassion in acute mental health care in the United Kingdom. Compassion is commonly defined as being sensitive to the suffering of others and showing a commitment to relieve it, yet we know little about how this is demonstrated in health professional language and how it is situated in the context of acute mental health care services. We report on a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of 20 acute mental h…
The Metaphysics of Gender
Keynote 1: Spirituality and the Challenge of Evolution and Compassion
Science is revealing more about the physical nature of our universe and more about the nature of biological life; for example how it came into being, takes the forms it does, can become diseased, and how all life-forms flourish, decay and die. Science offers challenges to spiritual beliefs but also opportunities for evolving spiritual orientations in line with our deepening understanding of the nature of life in the universe. Two key themes are l…
Sagrado E Santo
As categorias da filosofia da religião são de diferentes origens. Algumas delas provêm da sociologia e da fenomenologia e tocam o fenômeno religioso mais de perto do que outras, muito particularmente, o ́sagrado‘ e o ́santo‘. Estas duas categorias, cujo significado é explicitado recorrendo a alguns dos principais autores que o ilustraram, instituem uma dialética entre a expressão exterior do sentimento religioso (o sagrado) e sua intenção interio…
Fears of compassion: Development of three self‐report measures
Objectives. There is increasing evidence that helping people develop compassion for themselves and others has powerful impacts on negative affect and promotes positive affect. However, clinical observations suggest that some individuals, particularly those high in self‐criticism, can find self‐compassion and receiving compassion difficult and can be fearful of it. This study therefore developed measures of fear of: compassion for others , compass…
Cultural identity and political ethics
"Today, people's cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these claims commonly lead to acrimony and violence. But what is 'cultural identity', and what is its political significance? This book offers a provocatively sceptical answer to these questions. Tracing the idea back to the now largely discredited notion of national character, it argues that cultural identity is no deep going feature of individual p…
Evolution, Social Roles, and the Differences in Shame and Guilt
THE fear of shame and ridicule can be so strong that people will risk serious physical injury or even death to avoid it. One of the reasons for this is because shame can indicate serious damage to social acceptance and a breakdown in a variety of social relationships . The evolutionary root of shame is in a self-focused, social threat system related to competitive behavior and the need to prove oneself acceptable/desirable to others (Gilbert, 198…
Compassion: From Its Evolution to a Psychotherapy
The concept, benefits and recommendations for the cultivation of compassion have been recognized in the contemplative traditions for thousands of years. In the last 30 years or so, the study of compassion has revealed it to have major physiological and psychological effects influencing well-being, addressing mental health difficulties, and promoting prosocial behavior. This paper outlines an evolution informed biopsychosocial, multicomponent mode…
The evolution of social attractiveness and its role in shame, humiliation, guilt and therapy
This paper suggests that humans have innate needs to be seen as attractive to others. These needs form the basis for shame and mediate evaluations of social standing (status), social acceptance and social bonds. Shame and humiliation are associated with attacks on, and losses of, social attractiveness. The internal experiences of shame are derived from submissive strategies where one seeks to signal to others awareness of loss of social standing …
Giving as “De-Risking: Philanthropy, Impact Investment and the Pandemic Response
This article examines the role played by philanthrocapitalist foundations in impact investing for international development, focusing on the covid -19 Vaccines Global Access Initiative ( covax ) as a response to the current pandemic. Philanthrocapitalists and development institutions are increasingly turning to “blended finance” and “social bonds” to address the gaps in funding required to meet global development agendas, particularly in the aren…
The Language of Compassion in Acute Mental Health Care
In this article we examine the language of compassion in acute mental health care in the United Kingdom. Compassion is commonly defined as being sensitive to the suffering of others and showing a commitment to relieve it, yet we know little about how this is demonstrated in health professional language and how it is situated in the context of acute mental health care services. We report on a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of 20 acute mental h…
The evolved basis and adaptive functions of cognitive distortions
This paper explores common cognitive distortions from the perspective of evolutionary psychology. It is suggested that cognitive distortions are natural consequences of using fast track defensive algorithms that are sensitive to threat. In various contexts, especially those of threat, humans evolved to think adaptively rather than logically. Hence cognitive distortions are not strictly errors in brain functioning and it can be useful to inform pa…
Evolutionary psychopathology: Why isn't the mind designed better than it is
This paper outlines some of the basic issues in evolutionary thinking when applied to psychopathology. It aims to give some background and context to the papers that follow. Particular attention is given to the way evolution is constrained by previous design features, the importance of trade offs between advantages and disadvantages of different traits, the way social dilemmas and conflicts have shaped the evolution of human motivational systems,…
Unveiling the heart of young offenders: Testing the tripartite model of affect regulation in community and forensic male adolescents
Effect of adding a compassion-focused intervention on emotion, eating and weight outcomes in a commercial weight management programme
This study examined whether adding a compassion-focused light touch digital intervention into a commercial multicomponent weight management programme improved eating behaviour, self-evaluation and weight-related outcomes. The compassion intervention significantly reduced binge eating symptomatology and dropout, and improved psychological adjustment and self-evaluation, but did not affect weight outcomes. Compassion, self-reassurance and reduction…
Criteria of nationality and the ethics of self-determination
Whaterever their other emotions, anyone who witness the resurgence of nationalist demands for independent statehood in Europe should ad least be puzzled
Teaching the History of Science
Dire l'ineffable. Lecture du Monologion de Saint Anselme
Id est summum omnium quae sunt» (S. Anselme, «Monologion», chap, i-iv)
Les quatre premiers chapitres du Monologion peuvent être compris, non pas en ce qu'ils démontreraient, chacun pour soi, l'existence de Dieu, mais en tant qu'ils constituent, ensemble et par leur succession ordonnée, l'intelligence du concept augustinien de summum. Est summum ce qui est le sommet d'une hiérarchie d'êtres qui sont relatifs entre eux et envers lui, ce qui donc est relatif à la série des êtres qu'il couronne, mais aussi ce qui transc…
Human Goodness: Generosity and Courage
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Human Goodness: Generosity and Courage. By Elizabeth Pybus. (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991. Pp. x + 149. Price £35.00.) Paul Gilbert Paul Gilbert University of Hull Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 166, January 1992, Pages 118–119, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220461 Published: 01 January 1992
Special Review: Evolution, mind and culture
Book reviewed in this article: Darwin's Influence on Freud: A Tale of Two Sciences. By L. Ritvo. The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche: Psychoanalysis, Evolutionary Biology, and the Therapeutic Process. By M. Slavin & D. Kriegman. The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. Edited by J. Barkow, L. Cosmides & J. Tooby
Criteria of nationality and the ethics of self-determination
Whaterever their other emotions, anyone who witness the resurgence of nationalist demands for independent statehood in Europe should ad least be puzzled
Human Relationships: A Philosophical Introduction
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Human Relationships: a Philosophical Introduction. By Pall Gilbert. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991. Pp. vi + 164. Price £35 h/b, £10.95 p/b.) R. S. Downie R. S. Downie University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 170, January 1993, Pages 112–114, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219950 Published: 01 January 1993
The Social Competition Hypothesis of Depression
Depressive personality and depressive illness are examined from an evolutionary adaptationist standpoint. It is postulated that the depressive state evolved in relation to social competition, as an unconscious, involuntary losing strategy, enabling the individual to accept defeat in ritual agonistic encounters and to accommodate to what would otherwise be unacceptably low social rank.
Cages of reason: The rise of the rational state in France, Japan, the United States and Great Britain
Power, social rank and depression: Comments on Price & Gardner
The evolution of social attractiveness and its role in shame, humiliation, guilt and therapy
This paper suggests that humans have innate needs to be seen as attractive to others. These needs form the basis for shame and mediate evaluations of social standing (status), social acceptance and social bonds. Shame and humiliation are associated with attacks on, and losses of, social attractiveness. The internal experiences of shame are derived from submissive strategies where one seeks to signal to others awareness of loss of social standing …
Shame: Interpersonal Behavior, Psychopathology, and Culture
One of the most commonly reported emotions in people seeking psychotherapy is shame, and this emotion has become the subject of intense research and theory over the last 20 years. In Shame: Interpersonal Behavior, Psychopathology, and Culture, Paul Gilbert and Bernice Andrews, together with some of the most eminent figures in the field, examine the effect of shame on social behaviour, social values, and mental states. The text utilizes a multidis…
The role of defeat and entrapment (arrested flight) in depression: An exploration of an evolutionary view
Background. The social rank theory of psychopathology suggests that with the evolution of social hierarchies various psychobiological mechanisms became attuned to the success or failure in conflict situations. Specifically, subordinates and those who have lost status are at greater risk of pathology than winners and those of higher status. In this theory concepts of defeat and entrapment are seen to be of special relevance to the study of depress…
What is Shame? Some Core Issues and Controversies
Much has changed since Helen Lewis (1987a) wrote of shame as the “hidden emotion” and the “sleeper in psychopathology.” Indeed, over the last 10 to 15 years shame has been subject to much research and theory, as Tangney and Fischer’s (1995) landmark volume shows. Recently, S. Miller argued that shame is now so commonly seen as “the bedrock of psychopathology” and “the gold to be mined psychotherapeutically” that there has been neglect of other em…
Preface and outline
The evolved basis and adaptive functions of cognitive distortions
This paper explores common cognitive distortions from the perspective of evolutionary psychology. It is suggested that cognitive distortions are natural consequences of using fast track defensive algorithms that are sensitive to threat. In various contexts, especially those of threat, humans evolved to think adaptively rather than logically. Hence cognitive distortions are not strictly errors in brain functioning and it can be useful to inform pa…
Evolutionary psychopathology: Why isn't the mind designed better than it is
This paper outlines some of the basic issues in evolutionary thinking when applied to psychopathology. It aims to give some background and context to the papers that follow. Particular attention is given to the way evolution is constrained by previous design features, the importance of trade offs between advantages and disadvantages of different traits, the way social dilemmas and conflicts have shaped the evolution of human motivational systems,…
Prix Cardinal Mercier 1997
Texte de présentation du prix Cardinal Mercier 1997
Actualité d'une philosophie chrétienne
La recherche philosophique contemporaine tient loin d’elle le syntagme « philosophie chrétienne » qui lui semble ne pas respecter la liberté de pensée. Mais la signification de ce syntagme n’a pas d’évidence, d’autant plus que l’autoconscience de la philosophie ne peut pas s’aveugler sur l’importance qu’a joué le christianisme dans son passé. Le concept de « philosophie chrétienne » a été décrit par l’encyclique Fides et Ratio d’une manière qui r…
Evolution, Social Roles, and the Differences in Shame and Guilt
THE fear of shame and ridicule can be so strong that people will risk serious physical injury or even death to avoid it. One of the reasons for this is because shame can indicate serious damage to social acceptance and a breakdown in a variety of social relationships . The evolutionary root of shame is in a self-focused, social threat system related to competitive behavior and the need to prove oneself acceptable/desirable to others (Gilbert, 198…
A focus group exploration of the impact of izzat, shame, subordination and entrapment on mental health and service use in South Asian women living in Derby
There is increasing evidence suggesting that shame, subordination and entrapment can play a powerful role in psychopathology. However, we know little about how these processes are experienced in different communities. This study therefore sets out to examine South Asian women's views of these processes and how they impact on their lives. It was found that reflected shame and honour (the shame and honour that can be brought to others by one's own …
A Handbook of Research Methods for Clinical and Health Psychology (DRAFT)
The World, the Flesh and the SubjectContinental Themes in Philosophy of Mind and Body
This work brings contemporary continental thought into conversation with analytic philosophy on the principal topics of philosophy of mind, considering three themes – the world, the flesh and the subject – to resolve the puzzles that beset contemporary philosophy of mind. The authors provide a coherent approach that draws upon phenomenology, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis and poststructuralism, and also relate recent feminist work on the body to tr…
Imagination and the Imaginary
In much contemporary work there has been a shift from a conception of the imagination to explorations of the imaginary (or imaginaries). This chapter explores the move from imagination, conceived of as some kind of faculty, perhaps that of creating inner or outer images, to the notion of the imaginary. It suggests that the world – the experiences of which constitute our subjectivity – is an imaginary world and that the embodiment which constitute…
The World, the Flesh, and the Subject: Continental Themes in Philosophy of Mind and Body
Psychology (30 works) · Philosophy (22 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Compassion (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Shame (9 works)