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In the counseling and psychotherapy literature, empathy has been identified as crucial to successful outcomes. Stimulated by Rogers’s (1957) discussion of empathy as one of the “necessary and sufficient conditions of therapeutic personality change,” (p. 95) numerous theory, research, and application publications have appeared. At the same time, psychoanalysts, such as Stewart (1956), Greenson (1967, 1978), Kohut (1977, 1978), and Lichtenberg, Bornstein, and Silver (1984), have written about empathy, expanding on Freud’s (1921/1923) brief comments concerning identification and empathy.
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Gladstein, G.A. (1987). The Role of Empathy in Counseling: Theoretical Considerations. In: Empathy and Counseling. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9658-5_1
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