Welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Podcast. The podcast to help you in your journey

towards becoming a wise, empathic, genuine and connected mental health professional.

I'm your host, Dr. David Puder, a psychiatrist who splits his time practicing psychopharmacology,

individual and group psychotherapy, medical director of a day treatment program,

medical education research, and teaching, residence, and medical students.

Welcome back to the podcast. Today, I am going to be going through my next series on the therapeutic alliance.

This will be session three, and also really a focus on empathy.

You can start here. You don't have to listen to the first two.

It will be a standalone episode, but it will build into the prior first two episodes.

Because empathy is a very important facet of what creates a therapeutic alliance.

So first, I'm going to start out by defining what empathy is, talking historically about some people,

what they said, talk about affective, first cognitive empathy, and talk about deficits of empathy,

psychopathy, autism, spectrum disorder, narcissism, macavelinism, that kind of stuff,

and their specific areas of deficits in empathy.

We're going to talk about the importance of empathy in physicians and therapists,

and really all humans, and then we will go into a study in which I'm a PI and a primary investigator

regarding on how empathy is experienced by medical students as they go through words

in regards to their relationship with their supervisors.

And then we'll talk about how does one increase empathy?

And finally, my conceptualization of different stages of giving empathy.

So I think that that's helpful for understanding how to both improve your empathy

and how to think through the proper ways of giving empathy.

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