Emotion in self-criticism

By William J. Whelton, Leslie S. Greenberg. 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Adolescent Emotional Development and the Emergence of Depressive Disorders: Shame, self-criticism, and self-compassion in adolescence (2008, background): “First is the degree of selfdirected hostility, contempt, and self-loathing that permeates self-criticism (Gilbert, 2000a; Whelton & Greenberg, 2005; Zuroff et al., 2005).”
• Differentiating Emotions in a Sample of Men in Treatment for Hypersexual Behavior (2010, background): “Individuals who are more self-critical manifest deficits in their ability to defend against their inner harsh critic, increasing their sense of hopelessness and failure ( Whelton & Greenberg, 2005 ).”
• A review of client self-criticism in psychotherapy (2013, background): “This definition was drawn from psychotherapy researchers’ writings on self-criticism and positions the meaning of self-criticism on a continuum of healthy to maladaptive aspects of experience (Blatt, 1974; Chang, 2008; Gilbert & Irons, 2005; Shahar, 2001; Whelton & Greenberg, 2005).”
• When you don't like what you feel: Experiential avoidance, mindfulness and meta-emotion in emotion regulation (2009, background): “Whelton and Greenberg (2005) found self-contempt to be associated with depressive symptoms.”
• Self-Criticism and Self-Warmth: An Imagery Study Exploring Their Relation to Depression (2006, background): “Previous research had shown that it is the experience of the power of self-criticism that can be particularly depressogenic (Dunkley, Zuroff, & Blankstein, 2003; Gilbert et al., 2001, 2004; Whelton & Greenberg, 2005).”
• The development of compassionate engagement and action scales for self and others (2017, background): “This supports the growing awareness that positive ways of relating to oneself in contrast to threat or critical focused ways have very different impacts on well-being and mental health [47, 119], physiology [105] and neuro-physiology [80].”
• Ability to receive compassion from others buffers the depressogenic effect of self-criticism: A cross-cultural multi-study analysis (2016, background): “For example, Whelton and Greenberg (2005) asked participants to engage in a two-chair exercise, in which they were first asked to criticize themselves and then switch chairs and respond to the self-criticism.”
• Compassionate mind training for people with high shame and self‐criticism: overview and pilot study of a group therapy approach (2006, background): “Patients can learn to interact with these aspects of self, such as writing them down as automatic thoughts and clarifying their meaning, or directly talking with them by (say) acting them out, as in the Gestalt technique of two chairs (Whelton & Greenberg, 2005).”
• Soothing Oneself and Resisting Self-Attacks: The Treatment of Two Intrapersonal Deficits in Depression Vulnerability (2009, background): “the inability to resist one’s self-attacks (e.g., Blatt 1974; Gilbert 2005; Whelton and Greenberg 2005).”
• The origins and nature of compassion focused therapy. (2014, background): “So for example, after criticizing the self, moving to the chair of experiencing that criticism, some individuals will often show slumped body posture, down-turned face with a sense of hopelessness and depression, and commonly agreeing with the attacks of the inner critic (Whelton & Greenberg, 2005).”
• Self-Compassion: Conceptualizations, Correlates, & Interventions (2011, background): “The Gestalt two-chair intervention, designed to help patients extend empathy to self and to challenge their self-judgmental, maladaptive beliefs, may raise self-compassion (Gilbert & Irons, 2005; Greenberg et al., 1998; Whelton & Greenberg, 2005).”
• Having a word with yourself: Neural correlates of self-criticism and self-reassurance (2010, background): “Role of striatal activity in self-criticism Self-criticism can be viewed as a form of self-punishment associated with negative emotions of anger, shame and contempt (Whelton and Greenberg, 2005).”