Three interventions used to assist highly self-critical patients develop self-compassion are described and illustrated with case material. Theoretical background, assumed mechanism of change, and research evidence for each intervention is presented.

Attachment with altruistic others requires the ability to appropriately process affiliative and kind facial cues. Yet there is no stimulus set available to investigate such processes. Here, we developed a stimulus set depicting compassionate and critical facial expressions, and validated its effectiveness using well-established visual-probe methodology. In Study 1, 62 participants rated photogr...

In late modernity, Western societies undergo profound processes of change that lead to tensions between different social actors, which sometimes occur in intergenerational terms. This article explores these the field music through neobakala scene, is composed adults who have created a nostalgic discourse establish hierarchy with other musical scenes by youngsters. The concepts nostalgia and gen...

The main purpose of this paper is to enlighten literary critical thought and work Milenko Maticki (1936-2001), a well-known writer for young people, as well adults. In the constant touch with literature, in capacity editor Politics Children, based his literary-critical contributions on strict selection valid aesthetic-artistic criteria, showing poetic affinities good knowledge theoretical metho...

Most of the literary theorists and critics of classical antiquity who are still studied today – Plato, Aristotle, ‘Longinus’, and a few others – are Greeks. The Romans, who by reputation came late to literature and lacked a theoretical cast of mind, are not generally accorded a prominent place in the development of this discourse. Indeed, few surviving Roman texts address as their main topic th...

The primal scene has become something of a Freudian cliché, yet if considered in a broad narratological sense, the concept can offer a useful template and terminology in investigations of the writing process. This discussion explores how primal scenes, and variants of the term such as ‘primary scenes’, hold a pivotal position between imagination and memory, between history and fantasy, in the c...

critical care group expert practice development group, representing leading-edge practice.7 The project team was tasked to report and recommend methods that accurately and robustly capture and verify evidence of knowledge and application of skills of advanced practice capability. Additionally, the project was to evaluate systematically the evidence of knowledge and application of skills of adva...

Youths' attachment representations with their parents were tested as moderators of the relation between peer-reported anxious solitude and self-compassion and self-criticism trajectories from fifth to seventh grades. Participants were 213 youth, 57% girls, M = 10.65 years of age. Growth curves revealed that attachment representations with both parents moderated the relation between AS and self-...

In his article "World Literatures and Romanian Literary Criticism" Caius Dobrescu argues that the notion Weltliteratur of Goethe posits the concept of world literature as the conveyor of universal (i.e., cosmopolitan) skills of socio-cultural adaptation. The influence of this form of Weltliteratur on Romanian literary criticism is traceable from Westernization in the nineteenth century to the c...