Empathy training

[John]

do a search on mirror neurons and psychopathic personality. There is 
very recent research about this.

John Gessner

Adam Blatner wrote:

> Dear Grouptalk Colleagues, I received an email from  Jim Catlin (   
> jcatlin at discover-net.net <mailto: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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