https://stlpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Empathy-William-Kelly-MD-Podcast.m4a Psychoanalytic Perspectives: Empathy William Kelly, MD

Empathy: In all twenty-three volumes of Freud’s works the term only appears fourteen times. However he regarded it as basic to the process and the practice of psychoanalysis. He referred to empathy as a “mechanism by means of which we are able to take up any attitude at all towards another’s mental life.