The Empathy Trap: Lessons from Contemplative Medicine | Jud Brewer | New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care
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The Empathy Trap: Lessons from Contemplative Medicine | Jud Brewer | New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care
For the evidence, see Klimecki and Singer on empathic distress fatigue—and the new emotion regulation meta-analysis by Kampf, Adam, Rohr, Exner & Wieck. I also learned a lot from Paul Bloom’s provocative book Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
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Let’s say someone has both a high-functioning theory of mind and an overflowing well of compassion. What then? Well, this is what Hoffman calls “empathic over-arousal.” A person will feel so worn down by the intensity of other people’s emotions that it wears them down — it turns their distress into my actual distress. This might not seem like a bad... See more