Empathy
From Autism Wiki
Empathy is from a Greek word meaning "to offer" and is commonly defined as "as one's ability to recognize, perceive and directly feel the emotion of another." Some other descriptions and definitions of empathy are noted below:
- R. R. Greenson: To empathize means to share, to experience the feelings of another person. [1]
- Heinz Kohut: Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.[2]
- D. M. Berger: The capacity to know emotionally what another is experiencing from within the frame of reference of that other person, the capacity to sample the feelings of another or to put oneself in another’s shoes.[3]
