Compassionate Wellbeing’s first conference will explore the relationship between spirituality and wellbeing. Featuring a fresh range of contemporary academic research alongside personal and practitioner accounts, this conference seeks to illuminat…

Empathy is like oxygen for the soul (acceding to Heinz Kohut). If you are experiencing a shortness of breath, you need expanded empathy. Consider: A Rumor of Empathy is LESS of a rumor and more of an EXPANDED reality in the community today……

Resistance to empathy takes many forms. Resistance to empathy includes those factors coming from the therapist, those from the patient, including those emerging in the interaction, and those from the culture at large. Although “the culture”…

It’s hard to teach empathy in the classroom, yet it’s one of the foundations of the doctor-patient relationship. How well physicians can put themselves in their patients’ shoes is directly linked with patient satisfaction.“When …