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...

abstract introduction: psychological theories and literature have confirmed self-destructiveness patterns in human beings. chronic self-destructiveness has been defined as a tendency to behaviors that increase negative consequences and decrease potential success in the future. the aim of this study was to investigate prediction of chronic self-destructiveness based on the depression symptoms, i...

Few risk factors for nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) have been identified. This study investigated diminished aversion toward self-injury (i.e., NSSI, suicide/death stimuli) and self-criticism as unique NSSI risk factors. After terminating a treatment study, 154 adults with a recent and frequent NSSI history completed self-report and computer-based measures of psychopathology, implicit and expli...

The traditional method of assessing bone mineral density (BMD; given by bone mineral content [BMC] divided by projected bone area [Ap], BMD = BMC/Ap) has come under strong criticism by various authors. Their criticism being that the projected bone "area" (Ap) will systematically underestimate the skeletal bone "volume" of taller subjects. To reduce the confounding effects of bone size, an alter...

Scholars of science and society have long understood that in all but the most trivial of cases science cannot compel specific political outcomes. Rather, scientific understandings are frequently either intrinsically uncertain or diverse enough to be used to justify a range of competing political agendas. This paper argues that despite these understandings the use of science by scientists as a m...

Actual possession of an item has been shown to increase an owner’s valuation of it, a phenomenon termed the “endowment effect” (Thaler, 1980). We hypothesize that temporarily being the high bidder during an auction induces a “pseudo-endowment effect.” This effect may foster attachment to an item during the auction and thus promote overbidding. We examine this effect in two studies. In the first...

new criticism focuses on rigorous analysis of poetry and literature, irrespective of peripheral issues. its fundamental tenet is the autonomy of literary texts. therefore, new criticism shuns dealing with such peripheral issues as authors’ biography, social, political and historical events; since this approach considers all these issues as non-artistic. in principle, the followers of new critic...