Empathy training

[BARNETT WEISS]

what is Narc Pers Dis?

bernard widlake <bernardwidlake at btinternet.com> wrote:Clear Day    BODY {  MARGIN-TOP: 25px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 10px; COLOR: #0033cc; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica }    Of course Yallom in Practice of Group Psychotherapy  talks about The Schizoid Patient on p.382 of the 1975 edition. If Jim does  not have this I may be able to copy it for him and send it via email. Yallom  speaks of the need for great patience and of the reward of the effort. Training  in an "as if" kind of way.
 Hope this is some help.
 Best wishes, Bernard.
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   Dear Grouptalk Colleagues, I received an email    from  Jim Catlin (   jcatlin at discover-net.net     ) who writes: I'm a psychotherapist from Wisconsin and I am seeing an    Asian gentleman (from a male-dominant culture) on an outpatient basis who    committed a horrific crime almost 10 years ago.  He was found not guilty    by reason of mental defect and was recently released from one of our state    mental institutions.  Psychiatrists and other mental health    professionals who have worked w/him all the way back to his crime believe that    he has little or no capacity for empathy; he's    informally diagnosed with Narc Pers Dis.  One of the goals I have    set for myself (and him) is to find ways to "teach" him empathy, to have him    behave in empathic ways, and ultimately become empathic himself, to whatever degree    we can get to. I read your online article on teaching empathy and it    has given me some solid basic ideas/approaches I can use use w/him, plus   
 several areas I can further research for materials/resources.  Do    you know of any other curricula, tools, or resources that exist for    teaching adults to become empathic?  I'm wondering if anyone has put    together a sort of treatment curriculum (like with sex offender programs) that    is effective in the empathy-building area.  tks,    Jim  
            ... and Jim    gave me permission to forward this to y'all... to write him if you have ideas.    
      

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