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Amit JancoMember

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Lou, I really resonate with, and appreciate your suggestion of the term "empathy buddies." I'll keep that in mind..

By the way, it's interesting to note - if anyone watched Tania Singer at the (online) Trauma Conference - that she drew a very important distinction between compassion and empathy. She explained that the term 'compassion fatigue' is a misnomer, since compassion implies a capacity for maintaining objectivity, whereas empathy draws one into the other's orbit with much more force, together with a lessened ability to maintain distance and self-care. When that inability creates a blurring of boundaries between individuals, and when one stops differentiating between one's own pain and that of the other, this leads to "empathic distress" - ergo "empathy distress fatigue" is a more precise term. Watch the replay with Tania if you can, it's well worth it.

7/4/2012:49 AM

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