Blocks to Empathy

What Are the Various Blocks to Empathy?

A good way that helps to define empathy is to describe what is it not, or what blocks it. Create a list of blocks to empathy here. That is the phenomena that blocks the flow of empathy or blocks an Empathic Way of Being.

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• Advising

• Agreeing

• Analysis

• Apathy

• Caring ?

• Commanding

• Detachment

• Directing

• Distracting

• Disagreeing

• Drama Triangle

• Enmeshment

• Emotional Contagion

• Fixing

• Identification

• Judgement

• Moralizing

• Niceness

• Persuading

• Personal Distress

• Probing

• Projection

• Reactivity

• Reassuring

• Shaming

• Self-Righteousness

• Sympathy

• Threatening

• Victimhood

• Warning