Empathy is really quite a self involved process that is about self and not the other.
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Empathy is magical thinking
Here is a definition of empathy The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another This represents magical thinking One can only ever feel their own feelings. You can never feel another person’s feelings You can never really understand what another person is feeling. …
The empathy transaction.
Ironically in this way empathy is quite self centred and narcissistic process. It is about me and my understanding of the experience of the client.