Is empathy cost efficient?

Article Abstract:

As health-care costs rise, there is increasing pressure on professionals to minimize costs by providing treatment that is cost-efficient. Empathy is an important component of treatment, however, and it may be compromised if doctors are focussed on financial concerns. In psychiatric care, empathy plays a key role in the doctor-patient relationship. It allows the patient a sense of being heard and understood. Prerequisite for empathic understanding by the therapist is his ability to be empathic. This ability can be compromised by his own feelings and attitudes toward the work, the patient, or other, possibly unrelated, issues. For instance, if doctors are forced into focusing on the financial aspects of treatment, attention is taken away from the patient and the therapist's ability to be empathic may be compromised. Preoccupation with economic concerns may lead to making treatment decisions based on financial interest in the practice at the expense of the clinical needs of the patient. While it is important that health-care costs be contained, it is also important to understand how this may affect the ability of doctors to be empathic toward their patients. (Consumer Summary produced by Reliance Medical Information, Inc.)

Care and treatment, Evaluation, Economic aspects, Medical care, Physician and patient, Physician-patient relations, Ethical aspects, Psychotherapy patients, Psychotherapy

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Patterns of neurotic interaction: a study of empathy and enkinesis in interpersonal relationships

Article Abstract:

Empathy and enkinesis are products of human perceptions and actions that serve as integral factors in human interaction and psychology. The complementary reactions also mediate the interlacing attitudes that affect a neurotic family situation. However, neurotic individuals exhibit pathological empathy that disowns non-verbal communication such as hostile facial expressions. Furthermore, the schizophrenic utilizes this form of empathy to assert control during verbal interactions with normal individuals.

Analysis, Diagnosis, Attitudes, Attitude (Psychology)

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Jan Ehrenwald, M.D.: patterns of neurotic interaction

Article Abstract:

Jan Ehrenwald discussed on the role of empathy and enkinesis in human interactions and the interplay between verbal and non-verbal communication. Ehrenwald indicated that the imitation of facial expressions by schizophrenic patients is a form of neurotic pathological empathy. Furthermore, Ehrenwald also views empathy as a non-verbal process between two parties. However, he failed to elaborate on the role of enkinesis in the two-person phenomenon.

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