Joseph Burgo has practiced psychotherapy for more than 30 years, holding licenses as a marriage and family therapist and clinical psychologist.
The empathic person is a bit like a sponge, absorbing a part of the other person’s emotional experience and feeling it inside.
The opposite would be indifference and self-absorption because they make it impossible to absorb the feelings of another person. I suppose the metaphor would be narcissus and his reflection in the mirror.
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