Empathy or sympathy: a necessary distinction?

IF 0.3 3区 哲学 Q4 HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES History of Psychiatry Pub Date : 2024-07-23 DOI:10.1177/0957154X241261031
Ivana S Marková
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As a deeply hybrid discipline, psychiatry demands research that tackles the concepts constituting it and its objects. This is an essential prerequisite to empirical studies, the validity of which are directly dependent on a clear understanding of the underlying concepts. Empathy and sympathy are concepts used variably and inconsistently in clinical practice and research, with ensuing uncertainties around their role and meaning. Using a historical epistemology approach, this paper compares these concepts by examining the structures, intersections, stabilities and factors that shape them. It shows that neither concept is invariant, and, despite overlap, the concepts are essentially different, underpinned by different assumptions, holding different functions and capturing different phenomena. In turn, such differences require apposite approaches to their empirical study.

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同理心还是同情心:必要的区别?
作为一门深度混合的学科,精神病学的研究需要解决构成它的概念及其对象。这是实证研究的必要前提,而实证研究的有效性直接取决于对基本概念的清晰理解。移情和同情这两个概念在临床实践和研究中的使用各不相同,也不一致,因此其作用和意义也存在不确定性。本文采用历史认识论的方法,通过研究形成这两个概念的结构、交叉点、稳定性和因素,对它们进行了比较。结果表明,这两个概念都不是不变的,尽管有重叠,但本质上是不同的,以不同的假设为基础,具有不同的功能,捕捉不同的现象。反过来,这种差异也要求对其进行相应的实证研究。
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期刊介绍: History of Psychiatry publishes research articles, analysis and information across the entire field of the history of mental illness and the forms of medicine, psychiatry, cultural response and social policy which have evolved to understand and treat it. It covers all periods of history up to the present day, and all nations and cultures.
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