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Clinical Empathy

Clinical empathy is the skill for doctors, physicians, and other practicing medical professionals ought to take into their practices daily. Medical professionals also tend to change the meaning of empathy, seeing as detachment can be helpful in high stress situations. However, understanding how patients feel in these similar situations can be beneficial to treating many individuals as well. ~~~~ Ethanbonham (talk) 03:26, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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inaccurate, biased, uniformed statement perpetuates the myth that autistic people lack empathy

This part of this article is not true nor is it founded in research. This inaccurate, biased, uniformed statement perpetuates the myth that autistic people lack empathy. This myth has been imagined and disseminated by non-autistic 'researchers' who view autistic behaviour and appearances from a normative, neurotypical framework. Here is the harmful statement: "Because empathy is rooted in our ability to imitate their painful experience, people with disorders that inhibit them from social understanding/connection may experience difficulty portraying empathy for others. The people could include individuals diagnosed with Asperger's or autism." Please delete these sentences for the above reasons, but also because humans can also experience empathy for positive experiences not just painful. Samoidsamurai (talk) 22:54, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I understand that this can seem biased. According to various research, even ones that have been done in the last five years, there are connections between struggles with empathy and autism. I agree that it should be reworded nonetheless. I will search for another source to add that clarifies your point. Mic20020 (talk) 20:41, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh jeez, I'm a austistic person and that offend me very hard, are you telling me that there are no people who disrespect autistic people? In the world there are good and bad people, and now I ask you, is or not important of talk about the prejudice towards autistic people?

Because if this a myth, that's not exist, so let's forget homophobia, racism, sexism, let's pretend that all this doesn't exist, you realize how deny other's pain may be really dangerous.

Your speech even is valid, indeed, some people cause a lot of emotional drama and in this regard it is important to maintain critical thinking, but having critical thinking does not necessarily mean that the other person's pain should be ridiculed or denied. 177.105.90.87 (talk) 22:36, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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In popular culture?

Not sure how to categorize it, but I do think Elon Musk's recent characterization of empathy as a failure endemic in Western Civilization should be mentioned. --Haruo (talk) 02:57, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Haruo I disagree. He knows a thing or two about electric cars but he is no expert on empathy. Just because he is prominent right now doesn't mean that everything he says is notable. Lova Falk (talk) 07:27, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if it's that important whether he's an "expert". If a notable person says something about the idea of empathy, pro or con, and that gets a large scale conversation going AND that conversation is newsworthy and verifiable, then it might be encyclopaedic. It's worth seeing if that conversation is just this week's thing and it's forgotten in a month, or whether it has lasting impact. Peter G Werner (talk) 00:21, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

According to Snopes here, Musk is largely repeating ideas on "suicidal empathy" from Gad Saad, who says he's writing a book on the subject. If that book ever happens and it's noteworthy, than those ideas might be worth summarizing here. Similarly, there's a book by Joe Rigney called "The Sin of Empathy" which critiques what he sees as an excess of empathy from a religious right perspective. It's a book that seems to have some influence and might be worth mentioning in the "Disadvantages of Empathy" section, albeit, Rigney is making a highly specific religious critique. Peter G Werner (talk) 00:31, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]