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The Compassionate Mind
The Compassionate Mind
Paul Gilbert
(Constable & Robinson, £20)
[2 stars]
There is a rather beautiful and empowering message in this book but you will need to wade knee-deep through academic theories to find it. Professor Paul Gilbert argues that evolution has got it wrong. Although our minds have progressed hugely, our thinking is compromised by inherited caveman survival strategies. This can leave us struggling to understand our emotions and how we relate to the modern world. But, he argues, if we are what we think, the potential is there to radically change who we are, through re-training the mind.
Gilbert employs a mixture of psychological and Buddhist techniques to bring balance to the mind and nurture compassion for others as well as ourselves. Deeply empowering, but I just wish Gilbert could have reminded himself occasionally that he was writing a self-help book, not an academic tome, just long enough to let this beautiful message through. Anne Moxom
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