Connecting the dots: stress and inflammation Chronic inflammation is associated with auto-immune disorders such as asthma, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), metabolic disorders, and allergies with which many people struggle, thereby finding their vitality reduced. People sometimes respond to these disorders by… Read More ›
Empathy is an authentic way of being with the other individual after all the inauthentic ways of being have been overcome or at least set aside and quarantined. A reversal takes place, and the empathic way of being is the foundation for the psychological mechanisms. Projection, projective identification, and transient identification are valid and important, but not fundamental. What is fundamental is empathic relatedness, being present with the other person.
The first casualty of war is truth—the second is empathy. Empathy has to call for backup. The backup is in the form of radical empathy.
