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The concept of empathic understanding in phenomenological psychopathology is fundamentally epistemically flawed, risking error, epistemic co-opting, and objectification, and should be replaced with virtuous listening. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.CONTRADICTORY. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.CHALLENGES_CONSENSUS.

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This paper examines the limitations of empathic understanding in clinical settings and its potential harms.

August 12, 2023Phenomenology and the Cognitive SciencesOpen Access

The epistemic harms of empathy in phenomenological psychopathology

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This paper examines the limitations of empathic understanding in clinical settings and its potential harms.
Analysis of Jaspers' empathetic understanding framework in phenomenological psychopathology
Critique of contemporary empathic approaches like Stanghellini's and Ratcliffe's contributions
Proposal of virtuous listening as an alternative to empathic understanding
Empathic understanding may lead to misdiagnosis and mistreatment due to errors in interpretation.
The concept fosters a specific form of epistemic harm known as 'epistemic co-opting'.
Empathic understanding also contributes to epistemic objectification of patients.

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Critiques empathic understanding in phenomenological psychopathology, suggesting it leads to epistemic harm.

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Spencer et al. (2023) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a074aec558977396084491d https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-023-09930-1

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The epistemic harms of empathy in phenomenological psychopathology

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