How to understand empathy and anti-communism in psychology?

The word empathy comes from psychoanalysis and is a term of psychoanalysis. Visitor's empathy refers to a strong emotion that visitors have for analysts in the process of psychoanalysis with hypnotherapy and free association as the main body. This is a process in which visitors project their past feelings about some important people in their lives onto analysts.

Anti-empathy usually comes from unconscious conflicts, attitudes and motives outside the counselor's consciousness. It is the external manifestation of the counselor's unconscious expectation of visitors and some neurotic needs.

In a narrow sense, anti-empathy is defined as "the therapist's empathy for the visitor", which is Freud's definition. Broadly speaking, anti-empathy can be understood as "any form of unconscious emotional or behavioral response made by therapists for the needs of therapists rather than the needs of therapeutic relationships or visitors".

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Although there is a positive evaluation of the psychological reaction of empathy, in terms of its objective effect, no matter what kind of empathy, it is easy to form a fixed psychological stereotype on people or things, which is easy to lead to misjudgment, prejudice or partiality.

At the same time, this emotion strengthens the self-defense mechanism of psychological counseling visitors, and also hinders the sincere and natural communication between visitors and psychological counselors, thus disrupting the rational interpersonal relationship that should have been established in the process of psychological counseling.

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