Tools for Coping: Articles on Detachment et al.

[TrentC]

Here's another good article:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ange...amps-compassion

Using compassion to eliminate the vulnerabilities that anger and aggression protect us from seems radical and new only in this era of emotional pollution, in which we fail to see other people apart from our reactions to them. The emerging reactive narcissism -- the running theme of the current blog - is highly contagious and inevitably produces a sense of entitlement, victim identity, self righteousness, and the opposite of compassion: resentment and contempt.