“In Empathy in Psychotherapy: How Therapists and Clients Understand Each Other, Frank-M. Staemmler brings together neuropsychology, the psychotherapy literature, the developmental psychology literature, and philosophical literature…to rigorously and thoroughly present a new view of the nature of empathy that makes it clear how the relationship can be healing. The book is an impressive effort of scholarship in which Staemmler has thoroughly grounded his ideas in the literatures that he brings to bear.” —PsycCRITIQUES
“Staemmler’s new book on empathy, Empathy in Psychotherapy: How Therapists and Clients Understand Each Other, is a tour de force. Rarely have I read a book–surely not in psychoanalysis or psychotherapy–so scholarly and so accessible, so theoretically challenging and so humanistically rich.” —International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology
- Improves our understanding of the potential for empathy to greatly enhance therapeutic practice
- Draws from philosophy, literature, theology, psychology, social sciences, and neuroscience to create a new definition of empathy
- Critiques traditional concepts of empathy and highlights their strengths and weaknesses
