Empathy in Client-Centered Therapy
A Contrast with Psychoanalysis and Self Psychology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9021985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arthur C Bohart (California State University, Dominguez Hills, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 34-48 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Humanistic Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1678 • E-ISSN: 1552-650X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022167891311003 |
| OpenAlex | W2043304488 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 17 |
While empathy is important in psychoanalytic, self-psychological, and client-centered therapies, its primary function is seen as different in each. For client-centered therapy, the major function of empathy is to create a certain kind of learning experience through which clients come to live and relate to themselves differently. Specifically, it is to help people develop the "skill" of learning to use experiential referents in making moment-to-moment life decisions. For psychoanalysis, empathy is used primarily to help the therapist (and subsequently clients) develop insight into client unconscious dynamics. For self psychology, empathy functions to strengthen self-structure. These functions are not incompatible. Self psychology, in particular, converges on the client-centered view of empathy's curative power, over and above its insight-enhancing function, though the two approaches explain this differently
Empathy · Experiential learning · Function (biology · Pedagogy · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Simulation theory of empathy · Unconscious mind · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
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Heinz Kohut and Carl Rogers
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Self Psychology as a Bridge between Existential-Humanistic Psychology and Psychoanalysis
The Issues of Equality and Control in the Client-Or Person-Centered Approach
The "Real Self" Controversy
Behaviorism and Existentialism Revisited
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,34 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2011 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |