A Cronenbergian implant — a sort of empathetic mind-meld gizmo — enables the doctor to feel his patients' pain in his own nervous system.
And some poor people have had so many knockbacks that they have become resigned to their poverty, which, to a non-empathetic mind, may look like laziness.
In "Speck of Dust," she describes seeing a young girl carrying an "Abortion Is Bloody Murder" sign at a protest in Texas, and approaching her with an empathetic frame of mind.
It reminds us that, whatever the context, the empathetic interchange between minds is satisfying only when it is "dynamic," unfinished, unresolved.
It re-establishes Mr. Lonergan, who hasn't had a new play on the boards since 2001, as a possessor of all the crucial parts of a good dramatist's anatomy: a critical mind, an empathetic heart and a musical ear that hears whole lives in sentences.
Much of the book is epistolary, and part of its charm comes from the reader's being urged to make that empathetic leap into the minds of letter writers from another time.
Writer, director, actor Guillaume Gallienne is mind-bogglingly empathetic and funny as the young man whose mother treats him like that daughter she never had.
Nicholas Carr has written about how book-based learning taught us certain habits of mind, a more empathetic way of thinking that we are rapidly losing with screens and screen-reading.
Compassionate people know what it's like to be down on their luck, and they keep those experiences in mind to develop a more empathetic nature, whether through volunteering or just simply networking.
Here are some things to keep in mind: Once you have shown empathetic listening, it is time to move into empowered listening: Re-frame the questions you ask.
This newspaper has come to represent a particular way of thinking in modern Britain: unashamedly inhabiting the left, appealing to the empathetic and socially conscious, always to inquiring minds.
