Empathy and Groupanalysis an Integrative Approach

Ana Sofia Nava is a psychiatrist, with a Master's Degree in mental health. She is a group analyst in the Portuguese Group-Analytic Society, a Full Member of the Group-Summary: With the aid of the most recent neuroscientific and psychological investigations, the author proposes an integrative approach of empathy. Employing this referential she explores the characteristic way that, in groupanalysis, empathy is an investigative agent and, as such, opens a very special pathway to the analysands' intra-psychic lives. Stemming from very recent neuroscientific data (2000/2004), she also proposes that this instrument of investigation is amplified in the groupanalytic and psychotherapeutic group contexts. empathy is also integrated in the therapeutic process itself.