Empathy and Communication: Do We Have to Have ‘Been There’?
It seems that our experience is common or shared. Our understanding is based on our experience; but our experience is shared, and so our understanding can be too.
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It seems that our experience is common or shared. Our understanding is based on our experience; but our experience is shared, and so our understanding can be too.
Good clinicians not only have to stay abreast of the research, they have to bring some common sense and seasoned skepticism to their analysis of the research findings in order to incorporate only sound, reliable, and proven methods into the practice of their art.
How is it possible that we get closer through difference? Dealing with our deepest differences can lead to greater intimacy. How can it be that I am closer to you because we are so different?
It’s the same therapeutic process, whether we are in the same room or not. As far as I am concerned, online therapy is definitely the “real thing”.
As we make friends with someone we usually get a better sense of what their words mean. We get a sense of our friend’s internal world. We get a sense of where their words come from.