EMPATHY AS A PROCESS, METHOD AND CONDITION OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

Abstract. The article shows that in psychotherapeutic practice empathy is of great importance in the process of networking and contact between therapist and client in the process of therapeutic work. It is noted that there are features empathic process in psychotherapy. Presents an understanding of empathy as a method of therapy at three levels. Defines the features of empathy as a fundamental conditions for the existence and development of personality.

Keywords: empathy, psychotherapy, process, method, personal development.

Lukyanov Aleksey – candidate of psychology, associate Professor of applied psychology and special North-Caucasus Federal University

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