ABSTRACT
Although Freud (1921) said that empathy was indispensable when it comes to taking a position regarding another person's mental life, that it plays the largest part in our understanding of what is inherently foreign to our ego in other people, the term has not received widespread attention until recently. The papers in this section add to a clarification of the multiple facets that make up empathy in psychoanalytic work. For analysts to act empathically and foster an empathic process in psychoanalytic work, they must be able to come to know the entire experience of the analysand within the psychoanalytic interaction. They must be able to put themselves into the shoes of the analysand.
