What is 'Empathy'? How it is different from sympathy?
• Empathy is an intellectual understanding of another person’s situation.
• Empathy is present when one is able to understand the plight of another person and feel like other person.
• Empathy means understanding things from the other person's perspective, i.e., putting oneself in the other person's shoes.
• Empathy enriches the therapeutic relationship and develops a healing relationship.
• It is a cognitive process.
Sympathy is different from empathy.
• It is compassion and pity towards the suffering of another but not being able to feel like the other person.
• It is an affective process.
Explain main features of therapeutic relationship.
What is unconditional positive regard in the process of psychotherapy?
How Psychodynamic therapy is different from Logo therapy?
Explain the nature of the therapeutic relationship between the client and the therapist in different Psychotherapies.
