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Essential Tools for Empaths: A Survival Guide for Sensitive People

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Judith Orloff
Judith Orloff

Judith Orloff is a renowned psychologist and author, born on June 25, 1951. She is known for her contributions to the fields of emotional psychology and intuitive healing, with several best-selling books including 'The Intuitive Healer' and 'Emotional Courage'. more

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“In all imaginative writing sympathy for the subject is necessary not because it is the politically correct or morally decent posture to adopt but because an absence of sympathy shuts down the mind: engagement fails, the flow of association dries up, and the work narrows. What I mean by sympathy is simply that level of empathic understanding that endows the subject with dimension. The empathy that allows us, the readers, to see the "other" as the other might see him or herself is the empathy that provides movement in the writing. When someone writes a Mommie Dearest memoir - where the narrator is presented as an innocent and the subject as a monster - the work fails because the situation remains static. For the drama to deepen, we must see the loneliness of the monster and the cunning of the innocent. Above all, it is the narrator who must complicate in order that the subject be given life.”