Tag Archives: empathy

Creating We-ness

Posted on January 11, 2012 by logogroup

Interesting that this post sounds similar to the previous one, even though the previous one was not written yesterday. These are some thoughts jotted down, in a raw state (since I’m giving myself permission to write in that way these … Continue reading →

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The Common Experience Factor

Posted on November 23, 2011 by logogroup

After listening to the interview with Dr. Ann-Marie Neale speaking candidly about her struggle with and overcoming of alcoholism on Talk Sense Radio it crossed my mind that there are two different types of empathy and they are both important. … Continue reading →

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Character Identification and Empathy

Posted on August 28, 2011 by logogroup

In his interview on talk sense radio Alex Vesely had said (see Friday’s post) that a movie director is a director of emotions He also said that movies can be used therapeutically by focusing on which characters we identify with … Continue reading →

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When to use dereflection

Posted on June 6, 2011 by logogroup

I am revisiting a question that came up in our logotherapy course quite some time ago. Dereflection is the logotherapeutic technique of directing the person’s attention away from the problem and towards something important to the person. This raises the … Continue reading →

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Welcoming challenges

Posted on April 27, 2011 by logogroup

To continue my notes from the logotherapy podcast interview… M: Tell us more about the work that you do in Israel. B: I see private clients and I co-facilitate an English speaking logo training program in Israel to a group … Continue reading →

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Empathy in logotherapy

Posted on March 25, 2011 by logogroup

The following is a letter I received from Dr. Teria Shantall related to a discussion we were having in the course about the meaning of empathy in logotherapy: Two orientations are in question: the purely psychological approach of psychotherapy and … Continue reading →

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Portrait of a knowing soul

Posted on January 16, 2011 by logogroup

A child calls out to his mother from his room in the middle of the night. “Mommy, I can’t find my markers!” They had been right there next to him when he went to sleep. His mother hears from her … Continue reading →

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Spiritual foundations of logotherapy: The skill of gratitude

Posted on January 6, 2011 by logogroup

So far we’ve considered two aspects to human beings that are not so readily apparent. Seeing the spiritual essence and seeing hidden potential requires seeing with spiritual eyes. Seeing good things in life should be easier to find than hidden … Continue reading →

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These people knew about these people

Posted on December 6, 2010 by logogroup

A story is told in the Talmud (Gitten 57a) that three hundred thousand soldiers came and killed the residents in one side of the country for three days, and during all this time the residents on the other side of … Continue reading →

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Empathy is not being a bystander

Posted on August 20, 2010 by logogroup

The best place to learn empathy is from listening to people who suffer. In the book Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought by Nahum Glatzer, we can listen in to the thoughts of a philosopher lying paralyzed, in his last … Continue reading →

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