Empathy, transference and compassion

Empathy and compassion

As humans we are a highly social species: in order to coordinate our joint actions and assure successful communication, we use language skills to explicitly convey information to each other, and social abilities such as empathy or perspective taking to infer another person's emotions and mental state. The human cognitive capacity to draw inferences about other peoples' beliefs, intentions and t...

Changing lives with empathy, compassion and skill.

She persuaded Vodacom Foundation Chairman, Mthobi Tyamzashe (himself born with a cleft lip), to sit in on one infant’s life-changing operation, in spite of his deep aversion to hospitals. To make doubly sure, Naiker got Vodacom’s then CEO, Alan Knott-Craig (who spent the first 5 years of his life in leg calipers and much later suffered a life-changing near-fatal heart attack), to attend a subse...

Compassion and empathy--a Doulas best friends.

Empathy , transference and counter-transference in group analysis and analytic group psychotherapy – its interaction

A Study of the Transference between Empathy towards Companion Animals and Empathy Towards

Lind, Mary A. __________________________________________________________________ ______ (Writer) (Last Name) (First Name) (Initial) A STUDY OF THE TRANSFERENCE BETWEEN EMPATHY TOWARDS __________________________________________________________________ ______ (Title) COMPANION ANIMALS AND EMPATHY TOWARDS HUMANS IN CHILDREN __________________________________________________________________ ______ ...