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EMPATHY: All About Empathy: A portal for information: articles, definitions, links, videos, etc. about Empathy and Compassion
Ashok Bhattacharya Ashok Bhattacharya is a psychiatrist in private practice and founder of The Empathy Clinic .
Nov 2, 2024
The Empathy Clinic
2023-present (2 years)
The Empathy Clinic is committed to the teaching, practice, and enhancement of empathy. Human beings live together in groups; we are part of a tribe. A basic purpose of empathy is to trigger concern so that weaker, older, or sicker members of the tribe are looked after. Empathy is a starting point for compassion; what we do when we care about each other. Our empathy centers are triggered to experience discomfort when we see pain in others, and calmed when we see soothing of pain in others. Empathy is the capacity to feel someone else's feelings and experiences from their, not your, point of view. The field of medicine places doctors in a position of caring for sick people who are often in some form of pain. Psychiatry and psychotherapy places us in a unique position with our clients where the meaning of pain, especially emotional pain, is also explored. It is also very soothing when we feel someone else really 'gets' us, especially when we are suffering. Appreciating the experience of aSee more
