Empathy: A psychoanalytic perspective.

Abstract

discuss the nature of empathy and its role in psychoanalytic theory and practice / begin with a consideration of the definition of empathy and the different uses of the term /// focus mainly on the role of empathy in psychotherapy / discuss the following main topics: empathy as a method of observation in classical psychoanalytic theory, processes by which empathy operates, the validation of empathic understanding and knowledge, and empathy as a therapeutic agent (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2002 APA, all rights reserved)from the chapter