(Kohut 1984)

“Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.” ~Heinz Kohut

(1984, p. 82). Source: Kohut, H. (1984). How does analysis cure? Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

"After defining empathy, Kohut went further and considered empathy as a scientific method for the investigation

of mental states and claimed that psychoanalysis should limit itself to studying these mental states (MacIsaac, 1997)."

"Empathy, therefore, is not only a mental state, for Kohut it is also a method of collecting data for scientific aims." (HAKANSSON 2003)