Empathy induction in the couple treatment of depression: Shifting the focus from self to other.

Odegaard, Paul

doi:10.1037/h0089811

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“…Little attention has been dedicated hitherto to the development of specific treatment strategies for depression through the enhancement of emotional intimacy and shifting the focus of concern from self to other (cf. Odegaard, 1996). A largely nondiscordant relationship could represent an important condition or context to facilitate the experience of the other-focus, redirecting the focus to other persons' emotions.…”

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Reduced Awareness of Others’ Emotions in Unipolar Depressed Patients

Donges

Kersting

Dannlowski

et al. 2005

Journal of Nervous &Amp; Mental Disease

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The present study was conducted to examine depressed patients' awareness of their own and other persons' emotions in the course of an inpatient psychotherapeutic treatment program. To this aim, the Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS) was administered twice, approximately 7 weeks apart, to 22 patients with a unipolar depression and 22 normal controls. From test 1 to test 2, severity of patients' depressive symptoms as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory improved significantly. Depressed patients did not differ from normal individuals on the LEAS-self score, but at time 1, they exhibited lower LEAS-other scores than normal controls. In the whole sample, LEAS-other scores increased significantly from time 1 to time 2. Acutely depressed patients seem not to be impaired in the complexity of their own emotional experience, but they exhibit a reduction in the ability to empathize with other persons.

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Reduced Awareness of Others’ Emotions in Unipolar Depressed Patients

Donges

Kersting

Dannlowski

et al. 2005

Journal of Nervous &Amp; Mental Disease

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“…Among these techniques to close the observability gap, attempts to empathize rank highly (e.g., Mendoza, 1996; Odegaard, 1996). But another, perhaps overlooked tool to facilitate successful interactions is the increase of attention to one's own behaviors.…”

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Attention to behavioral events during interaction: Two actor–observer gaps and three attempts to close them.

Malle¹,

Pearce²

2001

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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In social interactions, people must pay attention to many behavioral events unfolding in themselves and the other person-events that can be observable or unobservable, intentional or unintentional. Three studies explored how people distribute their attention to these different event types and, as a result, build up representations of self and partner during the interaction. Relying on basic principles of attention , the authors predict 2 actor-observer gaps: Actors pay more attention to unobservable events and less to observable events than observers; and actors pay more attention to unintentional events and less to intentional events than observers. Study 1 documents both gaps. Studies 2 and 3 explore factors that might close the gaps, such as relational intimacy and empathy. Implications of these results for the role of attention in attribution and interpersonal behavior are discussed. The paramount fact about human interactions is that they are happenings that are psychologically represented in each of the participants.. . We interact with each other. .. via emotions and thoughts that are capable of taking into account the emotions and thoughts of others (Asch, 1952, p. 142). Generally, a person reacts to what he thinks the other person is perceiving, feeling, and thinking, in addition to what the other person may be doing (Heider, 1958, p. 1).

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Attention to behavioral events during interaction: Two actor-observer gaps and three attempts to close them.

Malle

Pearce²

2001

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Empathy induction in the couple treatment of depression: Shifting the focus from self to other.

Cited by 4 publications

References 29 publications

Reduced Awareness of Others’ Emotions in Unipolar Depressed Patients

Reduced Awareness of Others’ Emotions in Unipolar Depressed Patients

Attention to behavioral events during interaction: Two actor–observer gaps and three attempts to close them.

Attention to behavioral events during interaction: Two actor-observer gaps and three attempts to close them.

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