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EMPATHY IN TODAYS CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND IN EDITH STEIN

The purpose of this article is to offer the possibility of approaching the empathy understood by the contemporary clinical psychology represented by the DSM-5 (2013) with the empathy understood by the phenomenological philosophy represented by Edith Stein (1916). It will be possible to consider how the philosophical intuitions have anticipated for a century what the neurology has later discovered with mirror neurons and that the clinical psychology has then codified in the functioning of the personality. The empathy understood by Edith Stein is almost completely synthesized in the constructs of empathy, intimacy and identity of the DSM-5. Practical exercises are proposed through three schemes and two short questionnaires to develop empathy and to continue further research. These are tools based on the DSM-5 criteria to evaluate the functioning of the personality and the degree of problematic of an individual. Knowing some criteria and tools to develop empathy is useful not only to psycho therapists but also to formators and spiritual directors. The study of empathy and its development on a personal, couple, group and social level can certainly contribute to growth only on the psychological, but also moral and political.