Empathy

Love is a motivation for people to fight, defend, and mature for. Lucius Apuleius' myth, Cupid and Psyche, tells the story of the strength and determination of the mortal needed to regain a lost love. Francesca Lia Block's modern retelling, Psyche's Dark Night, emphasizes the many issues that affect relationships and explores the pain that accompanies dating. The retelling offers a new look into love and whether or not it is worth all the pain that accompanies it. The updated setting and…

Charles Johnson’s compendium of the “[lives] of the [h]ighwaymen” includes a text about a clever seventeenth-century confidence trickster named Mary Carleton (Johnson 221). The biography of Mary Carleton reveals her ability to exploit human emotions and tendencies for personal gain and highlights her proficiency at creating new façades and employing different tactics in order to successfully manipulate others in a wide range of scenarios, unlike other fraudsters. Mary resorted to continuously…

Always be empathetic “Caring adjective: displaying kindness and concern for others.” Some people can be really mean, but others are understanding. The book The Outsiders is about a bunch of kids with pretty bad lives but one is still empathetic. Sodapop is a very understanding of everyone. Ponyboy and Darry are always fighting but sodapop understands both of them. Soda is always the middle man, but he can bring his family together. Sodapop can understand both sides of an argument. On page.…

Compassion fatigue is a far reaching concept typically associated with the negative effects that a care provider may experience following intense and often stressful patient care events. Recognition of and a clear understanding of the concept is vital for communities, organizations and individuals in order to provide a fortified approach to intervention, treatment and the provisions of evidence based practices. Gaining recognition for the past two decades, researchers have worked to further…

I have always worn my heart on my sleeve, death, heartbreak, and simply having to deal with what life has thrown at myself as well as my family is very real and has shaped me into the person I am. Compassion, what does it mean to me, it’s not pity for the less fortunate it’s the idea that each one of us deserve the best and nothing but the best. To have a such strong compassion for not only people but animals also has had both its pros and cons. I find myself giving way too much to people that…

There are many aspects that could cause compassion fatigue with the Riverez family. When you are a practitioner you walk a fine line with finding yourself caring too much. The Riverez family is suffering from many different issues at once. As a professional you want to help the family to build up their lives. When issues arise, a family looks to the professional for guidance and when you are unable to complete the task it does cause more stress on the professional. First, it is very…

Sympathy is the feeling of pity and sorrow for someone else’s misfortune. It is easy to sympathize with both couples, Ellen and Paul as well as Solloum’s parents. Each reader will have their very own reasons as to why they may sympathize with one couple more than the other and each are entitled to their reasoning. My heart breaks for both families affected, but somehow shatters just a little more for Ellen and Paul’s struggle’s to survive, their failing marriage and the loss of their only child.…

between schizotypal personality and social cognitive functioning, in particular empathy and ToM. It was hypothesised that higher schizotypy would be associated with lower empathy and further, that negative schizotypal traits would have a higher association with lower empathy than positive schizotypal traits. Results from this study support the hypothesis as schizotypy was found to be negatively correlated with empathy, such that higher scores on the SPQ resulted in lower scores on the EQ.…

Empathy is the ability to identify, understand, and share the feelings of others. In Parrott and Parrot (2005) “The Complete Guide to Marriage Mentoring”, article “Real-Life Examples of Walking in Another Couple’s Shoes”, the situation arise in a mentoring of an engaged couple to show empathy, after discovering the truth about the couple living arrangement, and knowing where the church stand regarding cohabitation before marriage, through empathy the mentors where able to understand the couple…

Ambiguous Empathy: A Character Analysis “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view”(Lee, Harper). In looking through the perspective of another, we learn to empathize with those around us. Many times, if ambiguities are presented, it becomes easy to assume the worst and express sympathy. Writers often utilize ambiguity to provoke empathy within their stories. Through the creation of pathos in the play, Death and the Maiden, author Ariel Dorfman…