This article argues that empathy should be considered a multimodal process that not only involves perception, intellection, affect, and imagination but also the bodily and sensory aspects of lived experience. The problem of empathy in anthropological, philosophical, and therapeutic contexts is discussed and a phenomenological approach to empathic experience is advanced. An outline of local orientations to empathy on the island of Yap is provided. The place of pain, tactility, and empathy in the context of a local healer's therapeutic practice is detailed, and a series of specific therapeutic interactions are analyzed. It is argued that local moral orientations to suffering require the healer to rely on alternate modalities of empathic discernment in her attempts to gain access to what her patients are feeling and how their treatment is progressing through time.
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Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
January 2025
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Objective: Explore the experiences of stakeholders within hearing care pathways using a human-centered design process to design a patient navigator (PN) to improve hearing health equity for deaf or hard-of-hearing children.
Study Design: A qualitative, prospective, observational study utilizing the Empathize, Define, and Ideate phases of Human-Centered Design.
Setting: Academic tertiary children's hospital with interviews over Zoom.
Sci Rep
January 2025
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
Decades of research hold that empathy is a multifaceted construct. A related challenge in empathy research is to describe how each subcomponent of empathy uniquely contributes to social outcomes. Here, we examined distinct mechanisms through which different components of empathy-Empathic Concern, Perspective Taking, and Personal Distress-may relate to prosociality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChild Abuse Negl
January 2025
Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Departamento de Psicología, Madrid, Spain. Electronic address:
Background: Adult disclosure of child sexual abuse (CSA) is often addressed to partners and friends. The risk of negative reactions is high due to the stigma associated with CSA, however receiving social support is a protective factor. Therefore, educating the environment on how to face disclosure becomes crucial.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Interprof Care
January 2025
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
The main goal of interprofessional education (IPE) is to improve services and the quality of care for patients, their families, and communities. Enabling different professional learners, or others with relevant care roles, to learn together, is expected to advance care delivery. For both pre and post-registration learning, it therefore follows that listening to and working with service users is essential to underpin interprofessional learning.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPalliat Support Care
January 2025
University of New South Wales, NSWAustralia.
Objectives: Despite practice development in the area of advanced care planning (ACP) and systems wide changes implemented to support ACP processes, there has been a paucity of research which has addressed the experiences of a key stakeholder group - family and carers - as they navigate their way through these often very challenging processes. The study described in this article focussed on this key group.
Methods: In-depth qualitative interviews were undertaken with family members and carers in a regional area of Australia in order to illuminate their lived experiences of ACP processes.
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