The empathic brain and its dysfunction in psychiatric populations: implications for intervention across different clinical conditions
Jean Decety and Yoshiya Moriguchi BioPsychoSocial MedicineThe official journal of the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine20071:22 https://doi.org/10.1186/1751-0759-1-22 © Decety and Moriguchi; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2007 Received: 19 July 2007 Accepted: 16 November 2007 Published: 16 November 2007 Abstract Empathy is a concept central to psychiatry, psychotherapy and clinical psychology. The construct of empathy involves not only the affective experience of the other person’s actual or inferred emotional state but also some minimal recognition and understanding of another’s emotional state. It is proposed, in the light of multiple levels…