Exploring the Neuroscience of Empathy, Compassion, and Self-Compassion

Exploring 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 has accumulated over the past decades, this text 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 erosionAddresses autonomic nervous system (vagal) reflections of ECSDiscusses recent findings and understandings of ECS from mirror neuron researchCovers neuroendocrine manifestations of ECS and self-compassion and the neuroendocrine enhancementExamines the neuroscience research on the enhancement of ECSIncludes directed-meditations (mindfulness, mantra, Metta, etc) and their effects on ECS and the brain INDICE: 1. What is this feeling that I have for myself and for others? Contemporary perspectives on empathy, compassion, and self-compassion, and their absence2. The brain that feels for others: The current neuroscience of empathy3. The brain that longs to help others: The current neuroscience of compassion4. The brain that longs to help itself: The current neuroscience of self-compassion5. Sometimes I get so mad I could . . . : The neuroscience of cruelty6. All you need is love: The autonomic nervous system and prosocial behavior7. Reflections of others and of self: The mirror neuron system's relationship to empathy, compassion, and self-compassion8. Why does it feel so good to care for others, but only sometimes for myself? Neuroendocrine manifestations of empathy, compassion, and self-compassion9. Can we change your mind about caring for yourself and others? Neuroscience research on the enhancement of empathy, compassion, and self-compassion10. Directed meditations on compassion: You can change your mind11. Increasing self-compassion: The neuroendocrine enhancement of Self12. Teach your children well: Developmental neuroscience and empathy, compassion, and self-compassion13. Where caring for self and others lives in the brain, and how it can be enhanced, and diminished: A summary of the neuroscience on empathy, compassion, and self-compassion.

• ISBN: 978-0-12-809837-0
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 350
• Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés