What is empathy? Is it a basic human characteristic? Is there a biological basis for it? How does it work in therapy? Is it a necessary condition for therapeutic change? Sheila Haugh and Tony Merry have assembled a formidable collection of distinguished writers from Client-Centred Therapy and the Person-Centred Approach to help the serious student examine these and other important questions.
Historical Perspectives Nathaniel J. Raskin The History of Empathy in the Client-centered Movement Barbara Temaner Brodley Observations of Empathic Understanding in a Client-centered Practice Theory and Practice John Shlien Empathy in Psychotherapy: Vital Mechanism? Yes. Therapist's Conceit? All too Often. By Itself Enough? No. Peter F. Schmid Comprehension: The art of not knowing. Dialogical and Ethical Perspectives on Empathy as Dialogue in Personal and Person-centered relationships Per-Anders Tengland Empathy: Its meaning and its place in a theory of therapy Fred Zimring Empathic Understanding Grows the Person ... Art Bohart Emphasising the Future in Empathy Responses Laura North Rice The Evocative Function of the Therapist Jerold D. Bozarth Beyond Reflection: Emergent modes of empathy Jerold D. Bozarth An Addendum to Beyond Reflection: Emergent modes of empathy (August 2001) Garry Prouty A New Mode of Empathy: Empathic contact Ute Binder and Johannes Binder A Theoretical Approach to Empathy Margaret Warner Empathy, Relational Depth and Difficult Client Process Elisabeth Zinschitz Understanding What Seems Unintelligible Mike Worrall Supervision and Empathic Understanding PART THREE: The Wider Context and Links to the Other Conditions Mick Cooper Embodied Empathy Richard Baughan and Tony Merry Empathy: An evolutionary/biological perspective Sheila Haugh and Tony Merry Empathy in Context: The joining of the streams
