Κατεύθυνση Ψυχοδυναμική Ψυχοθεραπεία σε Ιατρικό Πλαίσιο
Library of the School of Health Sciences

2021-03-25

2021

Theodorakopoulou Angeliki

Ηλίας Αγγελόπουλος, Καθηγητής, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Μαρία Τζινιέρη-Κοκκώση, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Κωνσταντίνος Παπακωνσταντίνου, Ψυχίατρος-Ψυχαναλυτής

Nευροφαινομενολογία της ενσυναίσθησης

Greek

Neurophenomenology of empathy

Empathy is a cognitive process that allows us an in-depth understanding of an alien mental state. It is a fundamental inherited mental function that concerns primitive and other mammals which serves as a basis for understanding the other mind and another person’s emotional state. Ιt is differentiated from imitation and identification although a certain degree of these is necessary for the achievement of Εmpathy. Empathy is as shared view of subjective states as objective, at the basis of an embodied mentalization and intersubjective interaction with a goal of reaching the world of objects. The present research aimed at studying the neurophenomenology of Empathy and for this purpose, international database sources were used as follows: PubMed, Google Scholar, PepWeb. At first, phenomenological conceptual tools were applied in order to present the history of Empathy in the field of Art and Aesthetics, and consequently, in the fields of all mental life. Neuroanatomic, neurochemical and neuroimaging data are presented in order to confirm the neurological basis of Empathy. The role of neural mirror system is stressed. Αlso, the concept of embodied mentalization and its relation to Empathy is presented, as well as the critical role of the otherwise eloquent, non-verbal, pre-symbolic communication, in building the human undestanding. Moreover, psychoanalytic aspects of Empathy are discussed. Psychoanalytic space seems to be offering a number of opportunities for emotional sharing and bridging of alien mental states through unconscious and non-verbal communication. Empathy in psychoanalysis seems to share common groung with projective identification and countertransference, though differences exist between these phenomena. Finally, ideas for future research are proposed regarding Empathy in the light of covid-19 and the inflicted distance between analysand and analyst.

Health Sciences

Neurophenomenology of empathy, Embodied mentalization and empathy, Psychoanalytic empathy, Empathy and covid-19

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