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  • Neuroscience
  • Psychotherapy

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  • Compassion has ancient roots in contemplative traditions.
  • Recent research highlights its physiological, psychological, and prosocial impacts.
  • Compassion is increasingly recognized for its therapeutic potential.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To outline a biopsychosocial, multicomponent model of caring behavior and compassion.
  • To explore the evolutionary origins and functions of caring-attachment.
  • To examine how human cognitive abilities transform caring motives into compassion.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review and theoretical model development.
  • Exploration of evolutionary psychology and attachment theory.
  • Analysis of cognitive competencies related to mind awareness and intentionality.

Main Results:

  • A biopsychosocial model integrating evolutionary, psychological, and cognitive factors in compassion.
  • Identification of secure base and safe haven functions of caring-attachment.
  • Understanding compassion as a uniquely human capacity for sentient beings experiencing suffering.

Conclusions:

  • Compassion, rooted in basic caring motives, is uniquely human and directed towards suffering.
  • Cognitive competencies play a key role in developing compassion.
  • Cultivating compassion for self and others is a central therapeutic goal in psychotherapy.