Note sur l'origine de l'empathie

Jorland, Gérard; Thirioux, Bérangère

doi:10.3917/rmm.082.0269

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“…Sympathy and empathy consist respectively in ''feeling with'' and ''feeling into'' someone else (from the Germane ''mit [with] vs. ein [into] -fu¨hlen [to feel]''; Jorland and Thirioux, 2008;Gelhaus, 2011;Hojat et al, 2011b). This feeling refers to the mental experience of one's physiological and bodily states and changes (Damasio and Carvalho, 2013) that are triggered by the perception of the others' current experience.…”

Section: Phenomenological Distinction Between Sympathy and Empathymentioning

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The cognitive and neural time course of empathy and sympathy: An electrical neuroimaging study on self–other interaction

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Section: Phenomenological Distinction Between Sympathy and Empathymentioning

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The cognitive and neural time course of empathy and sympathy: An electrical neuroimaging study on self–other interaction

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“…Empathy is the capacity to feel and understand the lived experiences of someone else while mentally adopting his/her visuo-spatial and psychological perspective and maintaining selfother distinction (34,36,116,139,140). Phenomenological analyses [e.g., (141)(142)(143)(144)(145)(146)] and neuroimaging research [(e.g., 33,34,36,120,137,147,148)] importantly contributed to understand the complex and multifaceted nature of empathy.…”

Section: Phenomenology Of Empathymentioning

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“…We here refer to empathy as "to feel into" on the basis of the German term as in 36, 116, 150 [for a comparable approach, see as (34,(156)(157)(158)]. someone else (36,145,156,157). This "feeling" enables to accede to the embodied mind of others "in their bodily and behavioral expressions" (146).…”

Section: Spatial Decentering In Empathy: the Role Of Mental Body Tranmentioning

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The Relation Between Empathy and Insight in Psychiatric Disorders: Phenomenological, Etiological, and Neuro-Functional Mechanisms

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Lack of insight, i.e., unawareness of one's mental illness, is frequently encountered in psychiatric conditions. Insight is the capacity to recognize (psychical insight) and accept one's mental illness (emotional insight). Insight growth necessitates developing an objective perspective on one's subjective pathological experiences. Therefore, insight has been posited to require undamaged self-reflexion and cognitive perspective-taking capacities. These enable patients to look objectively at themselves from the imagined perspective of someone else. Preserved theory-of-mind performances have been reported to positively impact insight in psychosis. However, some patients with schizophrenia or obsessivecompulsive disorders, although recognizing their mental disease, are still not convinced of this and do not accept it. Hence, perspective-taking explains psychical insight (recognition) but not emotional insight (acceptance). Here, we propose a new conceptual model. We hypothesize that insight growth relies upon the association of intact self-reflexion and empathic capacities. Empathy (feeling into someone else) integrates heterocentered visuospatial perspective (feeling into), embodiment, affective (feeling into) and cognitive processes, leading to internally experience the other's thought. We posit that this subjective experience enables to better understand the other's thought about oneself and to affectively adhere to this. We propose that the process of objectification, resulting from empathic heterocentered, embodiment, and cognitive processes, generates an objective viewpoint on oneself. It enables to recognize one's mental illness and positively impacts psychical insight. The process of subjectification, resulting from empathic affective processes, enables to accept one's illness and positively impacts emotional insight. That is, affectively experiencing the thought of another person about oneself reinforces the adhesion of the emotional system to the objective recognition of the disease. Applying our model to different psychiatric disorders, we predict that the negative effect of impaired self-reflexion and empathic capacities on insight is a transnosographic state and that endophenotypical differences modulate this common state, determining a psychiatric disease as specific.

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“…Empathy and sympathy respectively consist of “feeling into ” and “feeling with ” someone else (from the German ein [into] vs. mit [with]— fühlen [to feel]) (Jorland and Thirioux, 2008 ; Gelhaus, 2011 ; Hojat et al, 2011b ; Thirioux et al, 2014 ). This feeling refers to the mental experience of one's physiological and bodily states and changes (Damasio and Carvalho, 2013 ) that are triggered by the perception of the others' motor, somatosensory, emotional, affective or intentional lived experience.…”

Section: Neuro-phenomenology Of Empathy and Sympathymentioning

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Empathy Is a Protective Factor of Burnout in Physicians: New Neuro-Phenomenological Hypotheses Regarding Empathy and Sympathy in Care Relationship

2016

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Burnout is a multidimensional work-related syndrome that is characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization—or cynicism—and diminution of personal accomplishment. Burnout particularly affects physicians. In medicine as well as other professions, burnout occurrence depends on personal, developmental-psychodynamic, professional, and environmental factors. Recently, it has been proposed to specifically define burnout in physicians as “pathology of care relationship.” That is, burnout would arise, among the above-mentioned factors, from the specificity of the care relationship as it develops between the physician and the patient. Accordingly, experimental studies and theoretical approaches have suggested that burnout and empathy, which is one of the most important skills in physicians, are closely linked. However, the nature of the relation between burnout and empathy remains not yet understood, as reflected in the variety of theoretical and contradictory hypotheses attempting to causally relate these two phenomena. Firstly, we here question the epistemological problem concerning the modality of the burnout-empathy link. Secondly, we hypothesize that considering the multidimensional features of both burnout and empathy, on one hand, and on the other hand, the distinction between empathy and sympathy enables to overcome these contradictions and, consequently, gives a better understanding of the relationship between burnout and empathy in physicians. Thirdly, we propose that clarifying the link between burnout, empathy and sympathy would enable developing specific training in medical students and continuous professional formation in senior physicians and would potentially contribute to the prevention of burnout in medical care.

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Note sur l'origine de l'empathie

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The cognitive and neural time course of empathy and sympathy: An electrical neuroimaging study on self–other interaction

The cognitive and neural time course of empathy and sympathy: An electrical neuroimaging study on self–other interaction

The Relation Between Empathy and Insight in Psychiatric Disorders: Phenomenological, Etiological, and Neuro-Functional Mechanisms

Empathy Is a Protective Factor of Burnout in Physicians: New Neuro-Phenomenological Hypotheses Regarding Empathy and Sympathy in Care Relationship

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