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Empathy and Healing in a Methodist Ecclesial Context

Abstract Healing can occur in a Methodist ecclesial context through empathy. After discussing an example of John Wesley's pastoral care using the case of Elizabeth Hobson, two questions are addressed from a self-psychological perspective: What is empathy? and How does it heal? Contrasted with sympathy, countertransference, and anxiety, empathy emerges as the process that enables relationships of greater depth and scope. Empathy heals by providing an environment free of undue anxiety, enabling insight, promoting more satisfying interpersonal relationships, and yoking with the person of the therapist who is in turn yoked with God. Theologically empathy heals because it is an interpersonal incarnation of grace.