a further tecnique incorporating compassion practices is compassion-focused therapy (CFT). compassion-focused therapy is a one-to-one therapeutic mode in which clients/patients typically attend 1hr sessions over a 12-week period. compassion-focused therapy integratees a technique the author terms compassionate mind training in which a client's shameful and self-disparaging tendencies are displaced by therapist-led compassionate regard, Outcomes from several small pilot studies suggest that compassion-focused therapy may help to reduce anxiety and reduce hostile auditory hallucinations in patients diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia