Description: This essential guide for helping professionals offers an insightful, conversational approach to mastering empathic communication with clients.
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Here is a book on empathy that is simultaneously theoretically sophisticated and highly practical. This refreshing new look at empathy describes how imaginative entry into the world of the other leads to the erasing of self-other boundaries and immersion in the client's inner world. Empathic engagement with the client from this inside vantage point leads to a reduction in the client's feeling of the therapist as an outsider and facilitates the client feeling safe and open. This book provides both theoretical explication of and practical skills for how to participate in this type of empathic engagement. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the process, the power, and the use of empathy in therapy, and is a highly worthwhile read for practitioners of all persuasions.
--Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada