2011). The therapist's ability to empathize profoundly reinforces the therapeutic alliance and boosts the overall success of the therapy, but real empathy is experienced most profoundly when we strike the right chords with patients in our clinical dialogue and also when...
one group that was prompted to psych itself up with "I" statements, and a second group which used "you" statements and their own name. When the participants were asked to give an extemporaneous speech in public -- a true stress bomb -- the Jimmy group came in...