Ten Types of Empathy (Deep Dive, Chapter 3)

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

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🗓️ 6 January 2025

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Dr Kirk lectures about empathy.

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00:00 The types of empathy
02:01 Compassionate empathy
04:51 Sympathy
07:20 Emotional vicarious empathy
11:24 Somatic empathy
13:24 Phenomenological empathy
21:18 Rapport empathy
26:59 Cognitive empathy
33:22 Background empathy
43:36 Defining the groups of empathy
46:22 Emotional availability empathy
47:43 Attunement empathy
51:19 Delineating types of empathy
59:09 Summary of types of empathy

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0:00.0	Hey, Deserved listeners. So recently, I published a deep dive on empathy, and in that episode,
0:07.2	I reviewed the history in brief of the concept of empathy. And I also provided a lot of the
0:13.6	definitions in our society and in the clinical world for empathy. Empathy is something that we talk
0:20.1	a lot about in therapy in the clinical world,
0:23.2	and obviously in society we talk about empathy a lot. But there are a lot of different definitions,
0:29.1	a lot of different usages, many of which don't have anything to do with each other, even though
0:33.9	we use the word empathy. And in the deep dive, I laid that out. But I didn't
0:40.0	provide a conclusion. What's the final word on the episode? So I thought I'd do that today by
0:46.5	presenting to you what I believe to be the eight types of empathy. And I spent a lot of time actually thinking about this and looking further into it.
1:02.3	So let me present that to you now, the eight types of empathy.
1:07.8	So all eight can be broken up into four categories of empathy. So all eight can be broken up into four categories of empathy. You have, I'm going to tell you the four umbrella types. You have the caring types of empathy. This is just my language. You have the vicarious types of empathy. You have the listening types of empathy, and you have the understanding
1:29.3	types of empathy. So in the caring types of empathy, there are two. There are two different
1:37.6	types of empathy in every umbrella type. So there are two caring types of empathy. One is compassionate empathy, and the other one is I'm just using the word sympathy.
1:49.2	Now, that's not really a type of empathy, but I think it's so close to what we use the word
1:54.7	empathy for that the word sympathy deserves its own place in this typology.
1:59.6	But anyway, so compassionate empathy, and I find that
2:03.7	when people are using the word empathy, they're often by context referring to compassionate
2:09.2	empathy. So this is my definition of that. And it's a compilation of a lot of different definitions.
2:17.3	So compassionate empathy is being sensitive to another person's feelings and struggles
2:24.0	and feeling an urge to care for them.
2:28.4	So another word, another term that you might hear in the clinical world is empathic concern.
2:36.0	So you're concerned for someone or compassion, empathy, you have compassion.
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