Empathy (Deep Dive, Chapter 1)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 99 minutes
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00:00 What is empathy?
10:55 Etymology
16:01 The history in psychotherapy
26:34 Defining empathy
48:37 General typology
58:57 Therapeutical typology
1:12:15 Why does understanding empathy matter?
1:19:34 Empathy vs. sympathy
1:27:05 Compassion & other similar terminology.
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December 13, 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Desirving listeners, today's episode is a deep dive on empathy. Empathy is a very important |
| 0:07.4 | word for me, not only as a professional and as a professor and as a podcaster, but also |
| 0:14.8 | in my personal life. It's a very important word and concept in psychotherapy, of course. It's talked a lot about. It's researched. It's a very important word and concept in psychotherapy, of course. |
| 0:22.4 | It's talked a lot about. |
| 0:23.6 | It's researched. |
| 0:24.9 | It's taught to students as a central feature of effective therapy. |
| 0:30.3 | It's talked a lot about in the lay public. |
| 0:34.6 | And it's an important thing. |
| 0:36.8 | It's an important thing in one's marriage or in one's |
| 0:40.0 | friendships at work with your children, with your parents, with other communities of people |
| 0:49.1 | that you don't necessarily relate to all the time. Empathy is very important. However, it is not |
| 0:57.6 | well defined or well understood, and people tend to use it in a variety of ways, including |
| 1:02.9 | therapists. So I wanted to do an episode about all the various definitions and the different types |
| 1:10.4 | and the history and the research |
| 1:12.4 | and all that kind of stuff. So let's get into it. The first thing that I want to say is that |
| 1:18.6 | I remember first learning about empathy and graduate school. It was 1995 and I did not have a |
| 1:25.6 | background in psychology. I had been to therapy a little bit, but I didn't know |
| 1:31.9 | much about psychology. And I realized that I was different from my classmates because when the |
| 1:38.4 | topic of empathy came up, everyone seemed to understand what that was. I did not know. I don't even know if I had ever heard of |
| 1:45.4 | the word before. I think it'd be different today because I think the word is used among the lay |
| 1:50.0 | public a lot more. But in 1995, I remember thinking it was a novel concept. Maybe I'd heard the word before, |
| 1:56.0 | but the idea and the concept was just so new to me. And it was one of those moments in my early career when I felt like I had a lot of catching up to do because my classmates, including Bob, if you listen to the podcast with Bob, they all had taken other classes or they had worked in the field kind of as a bachelor's level helper or they took |
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