Empathy training

[georgia rigg]

Check out the material Goleman has included in his
recent "Social Intelligence" book--he has considerable
information on mirror neurons and sociopaths.  Georgia
Rigg
--- John <John6528 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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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