Compassion Formulation
Compassion Formulation Unintended Consequences External Internal Historical Influences Key Fears Safety / Defensive Behaviors External External Internal Internal Emotional Shame Memories Self as... Others as... Self-to-Self Relating PSYCHOLOGYT LS http://psychology.tools Compassion Formulation Unintended Consequences External Push people away Not spend time with others Internal Historical Influences Emotional Shame Memories Key Fears External External People with leave me People will reject me Be aggressive - attack before I am attacked Hide away from people Internal Internal Experiences of rejection Bullying Self as... Others as... Worthless Weak Crap Rejecting Powerful Agressive PSYCHOLOGYT LS Safety / Defensive Behaviors I’m shameful I’m a horrible person I’m dirty I’m a failure Confirms my beliefs about myself Mentally avoid Self-to-Self Relating Self-critical voice “I really am worthless” “I’m horrible” “I’m stupid” “I’m not worth knowing” This formulation has been adapted from material that Paul Gilbert developed for the Compassionate Mind website http://psychology.tools Compassion Formulation what I do to protect myself from other people Annotated Unintended Consequences External Other people don’t understand or know me Internal Historical Influences Only child ‘Crap’ upbringing Emotional Shame Memories Experiences of rejection Bullying Self as... Others as... Worthless Weak Crap Rejecting Powerful Agressive Key Fears External External People will leave me People will reject me Be aggressive - attack before I am attacked Hide away from people Internal Internal LS Mentally avoid Ruminate about what’s wrong with me Compare self to others I’m shameful I’m a horrible person I’m dirty I’m a failure How we worry that we live in other’s minds internal key fears sometimes have a bit of a ‘core belief’ flavour to them they might be a bit less ‘verbal’ than traditional CBT core beliefs though PSYCHOLOGYT Safety / Defensive Behaviors confirms what I do to protect myself from myself Feelings become too much I don’t understand what’s happening to me Self-to-Self Relating Self-critical voice “I really am worthless” “I’m horrible” “I’m stupid” “I’m not worth knowing” This formulation has been adapted from material that Paul Gilbert developed for the Compassionate Mind website Thanks to Dr Carmen Chan for helpful discussion of the model http://psychology.tools
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