Advanced Empathy Essay

I. Introduction: I will open my paper by discussing the first use of the term alexithymia and why it came to be a studied phenomenon. I will give the most general definition (lack of words for feelings) and discuss the initial study in relation to psychosomatic patients. I will also include that, although it was more prevalent in psychosomatic patients, it also occurred in other patients, causing intrigue to further study the concept (Sifneos, 1973). a. Why it is important to study: I will…

Numbers are simply just that, numbers; no emotion, no morals, no empathy. In multiple cases Edgar removes himself from various situations to avoid emotional connection with his surroundings through quantifying his experiences. For starters, Edgar quantifies the women around him, objectifying them by placing only white women on a scale to then pursue “the tenth most attractive white woman at any gathering” (37-38). By quantifying the women around him, Edgar removes any human connection and treats…

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…

To feel sympathy for someone is to feel as if you can relate and connect with this person on an emotional level. Sympathy is a powerful feeling, and it can change people’s views of how they see the cruelest people. People usually feel sympathy for someone when they understand what a person is experiencing in their life. In the book, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the main character, Okonkwo, has his life flipped upside down and fall to pieces when he is exiled out of his village for seven…

December 1,2017 [Title]: [Subtitle] "Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change." (Carver) Whenever we find mutual interest, we associate with others on a higher level and we are able to emphasize and comprehend what the person is coming from. This helps us feel that we are part of a group. Being a part of a group increases our ability to interact and help each other as a whole. Empathy is the craft of seeing the world as…

Sympathy, an emotional response we have in reaction when a fellow living being is in distress or of need, a response that makes use alive. Something that makes us human. Emotional responses influence our actions, influences our decision making, and influences how we see people. The media knows this. SPCA does this with their sad dog commercials. They try to make you sympathize with their cause so that you can decide to join it and or donate to it. In literature, One of the reasons Lennie is a…

Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other person's frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another's position. Etymology The English word is derived from the Ancient Greek word ἐμπάθεια, "physical affection, passion, partiality" which comes from ἐν, "in, at" and πάθος, "passion" or "suffering". The term was adapted by Hermann Lotze and Robert Vischer to create the German word Einfühlung, which was translated by…

Challenging Five Myths on Emotions First myth: Allowing for my emotions creates suffering. It is just the other way round: trying to escape from emotions that feel uncomfortable to us is what creates suffering in the long run. It is impossible to suffer without judging our experience. If we feel anger, fear or sadness and judge these emotions as bad and unwanted, what we do is trying to cut ourselves off from the part of us that feels them. Every emotion is a messenger and numbing ourselves…

Empathy, a most basic human quality, but how many can define it. Empathy according to the Oxford Canadian dictionary empathy is the power of identifying oneself mentally with (and so fully comprehending) a person or object of contemplation, but what does this mean? In simpler terms empathy is the ability to share the thoughts and feelings of another being or object. So if that's the definition where can we find examples of this trait that has long been forgotten by society? In Harper Lee’s award…

Empathic-concern and perspective-taking are ideas that, I believe, go hand in hand. While perspective-taking is the act of taking on the point-of- view of another person, or “putting one’s self into another person’s shoes,” empathic-concern is the feeling of sympathy and tenderness (for said person) that can follow. I believe that the distinction between these two items is important because one is unlikely to have an affect without the other. To explain, I’ll use an example from my own life. As…