Table of Contents

Empathy and Psychotherapy - an Introductory Overview; Empathy - the Formative Years - Implications for Clinical Practice; Empathy in Psychotherapy; Empathy from the Framework of Client-Centred Theory and the Rogerian Hypothesis; The Recovery of Empathy - Toward Others and Self; How Does Empathy Cure? - a Theoretical Consideration of Empathy, Processing and Personal Narrative; Empathic Resonance as a Source of Experience-Enhancing Interventions; Varieties of Empathic Responding; Empathy as Therapist-Client Alignment; Empathy - a Psychoanalytic Perspective; Empathy - Heinz Kohut's Contribution; Expanding Attunement - a Contribution to the "Experience-Near" Mode of Observation; Therapeutic Empathy - an Intersubjective Perspective; Relational Empathy - Beyond Modernist Egocentrism to Postmodern Holistic Contextualism; The Empathic Context in Psychotherapy with People of Colour; Relational Development Through Mutual Empathy; Validation and Psychotherapy; Empathy and the Active Client - an Integrative Cognitive-Experiential View; Empathy - Where Are We, and Where Do We Go From Here?.