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Empathy—What One Hand Giveth, the Other Taketh Away: Commentary on Paper by Lynne Layton

机译:换位思考—一只手所付出的,另一只手所付出的:Lynne Layton在纸上的评论

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In this commentary I support Layton's vision of psychotherapy as an unavoidably political practice. However, I caution against a belief in empathy as a primary means of motivating political activity. By sketching a brief history of the concept of empathy, I argue that it is a problematic concept that ultimately will not lead the profession to the type of progressive political practice Layton encourages it to undertake. Empathy preoccupies therapists and patients with inwardness, self-absorption, a modified but sometimes still present objectivism, and an apolitical vision trapped in the Cartesianism from which it originated. I suggest alternative terms to describe what therapists do when they believe they are acting empathically; offer philosophical, political, and socioeconomic reasons why therapists are reluctant to think in alternative terms; and make a link between those terms and a more effective, hermeneutic way of attending to the social realm. I conclude that empathy is not a natural, instinctive process that produces an automatic result and that what therapists mean by empathy is much more a culturally formed moral virtue than a technical skill; it is not a natural, instinctive process that produces an automatic result. Therapists, patients, and the society would be better served if we came to understand and appreciate the difference between virtues and skills, and confront the implications of that difference for both the politics of therapy and a therapeutic politics.
机译:在这篇评论中,我支持莱顿将心理治疗视为不可避免的政治实践的愿景。但是,我告诫不要将移情作为激发政治活动的主要手段。通过概述移情概念的简要历史,我认为这是一个有问题的概念,最终将不会导致该职业成为进步政治实践的类型,雷顿鼓励这种实践。同情心使治疗师和患者充满内向性,自我吸收,经过修改但有时仍然存在的客观主义以及源自其笛卡尔主义的非政治视野。我建议使用其他术语来描述治疗师在相信自己的同情行为时的行为。提供哲学,政治和社会经济学的原因,为什么治疗师不愿以其他方式思考;并在这些术语和更有效,诠释性的社会领域中建立联系。我的结论是,移情不是自然的,本能的过程,它会自动产生结果,治疗师通过移情表示的含义更多是一种文化形成的道德美德,而不是技术技能。产生自动结果的过程不是自然的,本能的过程。如果我们了解并欣赏美德和技能之间的差异,并面对这种差异对治疗政治和治疗政治的影响,治疗师,患者和社会将得到更好的服务。

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    《Psychoanalytic Dialogues》 |2009年第2期|121-137|共17页
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    Philip Cushman;

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    University of Washington and Antioch University,;

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