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Paul Gilbert is a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Derby and a consultant clinical psychologist to the Derbyshire Mental Health Trust. He has explored the importance of shame and how it is related to the curtailment of feelings of warmth and compassion for self and others. Since 1991, he has been a fellow of the British Psychological Society. A graduate of Wolverhampton Polytechnic, he received a master of science degree in experimental psychology from Sussex University. He completed a Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh in 1980, the same year he qualified as a clinical psychologist. Dr. Gilbert practiced with the Norfolk Health Authority until he left for Derbyshire as principal clinical psychologist in 1988. Twice serving as acting director of its department of clinical psychology, he assumed his present position with the health authority in 1993 and his professorship in 1996. While maintaining an active clinical practice, he is also director of the Mental Health Research Unit, which is a collaboration between Derby University and the Mental Health Trust. For a number of years, he has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and delivers annual lectures at the University of Leicester, the University of Birmingham, and the University of Sheffield in England. Last year he served as president of the British Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Psychotherapies. He was associate editor of the British Journal of Medical Psychology for nine years and is currently an associate editor for The Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, as well as serving on the editorial boards of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy and the British Journal of Clinical Psychology. He has contributed more than sixty papers to scientific journals and nearly thirty chapters to collected volumes. In addition, he has edited three special issues of scientific journals. Dr. Gilbert is the editor of seven books, including three volumes coming out in 2004—Evolutionary Therapy and Cognitive Theory (SpringerVerlag), Compassion: Conceptualizations, Research and Use in Psychotherapy (Brunner-Routledge), and (with Jeremy Miles) A Handbook of Research Methods in Clinical and Health Psychology (Oxford University Press). He is also the author of seven books, including, Human Nature and Suffering (1989) and most recently, new editions of two earlier works, Counseling for Depression: A Cognitive-Interpersonal Approach (1992 and 2000) and Overcoming Depression: A Self-Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques (1997 and 2000). He has in preparation a new manuscript entitled “Evolved Brain, Social Mind.” Dr. Gilbert has a long-standing interest in the spiritual issues raised by Buddhism and Jung’s concepts of archetypes.
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