Empathy

Sheila Haugh currently serves on the board of the World Association for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling (WAPCEPC) and was formally Convenor for the British Association for the Person-Centred Approach (BAPCA). Until last year she was Course Leader for the MA Client-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling at Leeds Metropolitan University (UK), her particular interests including the development of theory within the classical approach to client-centred psychotherapy. Tony Merry was Reader in Psychology and the University of East London and taught on postgraduate and undergraduate courses in counselling and counselling psychology. He was author of several books and articles on counselling and psychology. He co-founded the British Association for the Person-Centred Approach (BAPCA) in 1989 and was editor of Person-Centred Practice until his untimely death in 2004. He contributed to workshops and other person-centred events in Europe, including several with Carl Rogers in England, Ireland and Hungary in the 1980s.

• Historical Perspectives Nathaniel J. Raskin The History of Empathy in the Client-centered Movement Barbara Temaner Brodley Observations of Empathic Understanding in a Client-centered Practice Theory and Practice John Shlien Empathy in Psychotherapy: Vital Mechanism? Yes. Therapist's Conceit? All too Often. By Itself Enough? No. Peter F. Schmid Comprehension: The art of not knowing. Dialogical and Ethical Perspectives on Empathy as Dialogue in Personal and Person-centered relationships Per-Anders Tengland Empathy: Its meaning and its place in a theory of therapy Fred Zimring Empathic Understanding Grows the Person ... Art Bohart Emphasising the Future in Empathy Responses Laura North Rice The Evocative Function of the Therapist Jerold D. Bozarth Beyond Reflection: Emergent modes of empathy Jerold D. Bozarth An Addendum to Beyond Reflection: Emergent modes of empathy (August 2001) Garry Prouty A New Mode of Empathy: Empathic contact Ute Binder and Johannes Binder A Theoretical Approach to Empathy Margaret Warner Empathy, Relational Depth and Difficult Client Process Elisabeth Zinschitz Understanding What Seems Unintelligible Mike Worrall Supervision and Empathic Understanding PART THREE: The Wider Context and Links to the Other Conditions Mick Cooper Embodied Empathy Richard Baughan and Tony Merry Empathy: An evolutionary/biological perspective Sheila Haugh and Tony Merry Empathy in Context: The joining of the streams