Glossaries

Addiction Expand Secondary Navigation Menu
- Recovery Expand Secondary Navigation Menu
  - 12 Step talk
Alzheimer's
Autism
Disability
ECT
Forensic
HIPAA
Memory
OCD
Pharmacology Expand Secondary Navigation Menu
- Psychopharmacology
Psychopathology
Psychotherapy Expand Secondary Navigation Menu
- ABA
- Adlerian
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- EMDR
- Family
- Gestalt
- IFS
- Jungian
- MI
- Narrative
- NLP
- PCT
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychodynamic
- TA
- Unified Psychotherapy
RDoC
Reimbursement
Sleep Medicine Expand Secondary Navigation Menu
Stuttering
TMS
Treatment
VNS

Connect with us

empathy (gestalt psychotherapy)

- ability to identify with someone, to feel what they are feeling. Perls contrasted empathy, defined by C. Rogers, with sympathy where the therapist allows him/herself to exist fully, so as to offer the client a partner, with an authentic 'I/thou' relationship in mind.

Definition excerpted with permission from Ginger, Serge International Glossary of Gestalt Psychotherapy (Seven languages including English. Order from FORGE at 183 rue Lecourbe; 75015 Paris, France) Paperback 1995.