Empathy training

[Dario Silva]

Jim,

I forgot to add that Johnson also wrote: Humanizing the Narcissistic Style.
I have not read this book yet but if it is like Character Styles one can’t
go wrong reading this work. 

For Jim:

Johnson, Stephen M. (1994) Character Styles. WW Norton: NY.   Johnson’s
chapter 4 “the used child: the narcissistic experience” deals with the type
of person that is described by your case presentation. Johnson includes
Therapeutic Objectives from a cognitive, affective, and behavioral-social
approach. 

Dario

 

 

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On Behalf Of Adam Blatner
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 10:25 AM
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Subject: Empathy training

 

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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