There isn’t a lot of research that explores the connection between empathy and recovery from trauma.
However, the connection between social support and the development of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after a traumatic event is well documented.
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Above are illustrations of three
types of empathy from
Daniel Goleman and Paul Ekman
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Transcript:One thing we must strenuously avoid is demonising another set of humans, or treating them as unequal. Quite apart from anything else, this leads to a collapse of empathy. What we need to do is expand the circle of those to whom we feel empat…
