Empathy

Most of us find it easier to experience empathy with people we can relate to in some way, but we may find it difficult to empathize with those people whose interests appear to be in conflict with ours (Sadri, 2015). Empathy is the ability to ‘put yourself in their shoes’ and to try to understand another’s point of view. As a clinician, you will encounter many different scenarios over time. Empathy is not agreeing with the client’s behavior but trying to understand the behavior (Clinton &…

Empathy When someone says the word empathy most people think about feeling something someone else is feeling. The word, however, means so much more. Merriam Webster defines empathy as “The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another.” The definition explains that you are feeling what someone is feeling in a way that you can relate too because you either felt that way or somehow similarly. In the…

Empathy allows me to enter the reality of the polish people by imagining myself in their position. The descriptive language used by the author helped me to understand what the people were feeling at that time. An effective example of this is just a single line, “I said nothing and sweated like a mouse”(Wazyk, 461), and just through that sentence one can feel the fear; the fear that turned a man into a mouse scared for his life. Adam Wazyk has found a way to describe the feelings of his fellow…

Despite the many flaws of the connection between the American Dream and empathy, there is a shared point of origin between the two. In fact, former President Barack Obama has found that the embodiment of empathy has been a common occurrence over the course of his life. After traveling and witnessing the diversity of Illinois, Obama reflects on his experience overall, “By the end of the week, I was sorry to leave. Not simply because I had so many new friends, but because in the faces of all the…

“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself” - Mohsin Hamid In ELA class, I have studied the Kitty Genovese case, themes for the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, and how I feel towards society. The expectations for this class are to understand what is going on in our world in the past and current events. In this class, we have learned about racism, bystander effects, etc. and how they affect our society and what happens in our society. In this class I have studied first-hand…

Empathy is the ability to connect one’s feelings, emotions, and pain with another. To view the world in someone else’s perspective, and not judge them for how they view it, but instead crawl inside the person’s heart and soul. “If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks.” To scout, is to explore and discover. If we all observe people’s perspectives and emotions, we’ll be able to intertwine our life with everyone else’s. Empathy is being one with…

Empathy is the ability to understand another person. It is the ability to place oneself in another person’s position and share their feelings and emotions. Besides our intellect and emotions, empathy is what makes humans, humans. Compared to other living beings, humans have the ability to love, care, cherish, hate, forgive, feel pain, become jealous, have perseverance, and be conscious of other beings and their emotions. Empathy is emphasized significantly throughout this book and it is…

Bloom and Jamil Zaki, debate the true meaning and outreaching effects of empathy. Bloom persistently argues empathy as simply understanding and experiencing how another person feels but never acting upon the emotional connection. Acting leads to “feeling… too acutely”, a process prone to tiresome mental activity, high stress levels, and overall, unproductive goals or results. Separating compassion, the act of loving, from empathy, the thought of relating, minimizes the conflict and…

Empathy is when you try to think like the other person. In essence, you wonder what the client is feeling as well as the crisis they are experiencing. As a counselor, you ask questions within yourself about the client: are they happy, sad, mad, grieving, bitter, etc. Empathy is the greatest tool a counselor uses to help understand the issues within the client. Empathy is somewhat like an emotional detective which seeks for clues. Counselors uses both Primary and Advanced Accurate Empathy in…

Since empathy and compassion is a balance point, then to have a balance, there must be the opposite. If our city doesn't have a level of fear, then what keeps empathy and compassion from tipping over the scale and possibly creating a backlash? Similar to what Thucydides says: "the strong do what they will and the weak suffer what they must," but, the strong do what they can because that is a sort of harmony. Even if people try to be as compassionate and empathic as possible, there will always be…