Empathy and Buber’s I-thou contact
I do not fully agree with Schmid’s implication that empathy is about “try(ing) to understand, as exactly as possible, the accurate meaning of what goes on inside another person in the very moment”....
Empathy
Levels of Gestalt Therapy Treatment Methods
A client who has just started therapy will experience different kind of session as a client who has been with the therapist for a longer period of time. Similarly, clients who experience psychosis...
Bollas: Psycho-Pharmaceutical use, like war, can impair empathic feelings.
This is not an article against the use of psycho-pharmaceuticals. Antidepressants, antipsychotics etc. use save lives and alleviate suffering but have side effects. The individual is left to choose:...