Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
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The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell
Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
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The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell
Heinz Kohut
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Heinz Kohut (1913, Vienna – 1981, Chicago) was an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst best known for his development of self psychology, an influential school of thought within psychodynamic/psychoanalytic theory which helped transform the modern practice of analytic and dynamic treatment approaches.