The Cancer Workbook Developing a Compassionate Mind for Treatment, Recovery and Survival

New addition to the Compassionate Mind Approach series of interactive workbooks focusing on cancer and other somatic disorders and providing a way to deal with your diagnosis, treatment and recovery with self-compassion.

The workbook will teach you the principles and techniques of compassion focused therapy, and you will learn how to treat yourself with compassion in the face of cancer, how to manage shame and concerns over your changing body image, how to manage pain and how to find a mental place of safety, as well as taking these tools into your life beyond cancer, in recovery.

THE COMPASSIONATE MIND APPROACH
The self-help books in this series are based on compassion focused therapy (CFT, developed by series editor Paul Gilbert). This brings together an understanding of how our mind can cause us difficulties but also provides us with a powerful solution in the shape of mindfulness and compassion. It teaches ways to stimulate the part of the brain connected with kindness, warmth, compassion and safeness, and to calm the part that makes us feel, anxious, angry, sad or depressed.

Julia E. Wahl, PhD is a mindfulness and compassion trainer; psychology lecturer at the Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS) University in Warsaw and Poznan. She also works with various organisations (e.g. Nestle, Roche, Mobica, AstraZeneca, Ringier Axel Springer), and is in charge of various professional training programmes (e.g. ecotherapy, compassion-focused therapy, mindfulness for children and adolescents). Her research and training interests involve contemplative approaches (i.e., mindfulness, compassion), collective narcissism, ecopsychology, systemic thinking, and how these concepts may be applied in the realms of therapeutic interventions and wider education contexts.

David Sheffield has been professor of psychology at the University of Derby since 2010, following appointments at Staffordshire University, University of Florida, East Tennessee State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a health psychologist, edited Health Psychology in Action with Mark Forshaw, and is the author of over 250 articles.