Psychology
fromPsychology Today
9 hours agoHow to Help Someone Have an Empathy Makeover
Empathy can be developed through structured reflection and practice, enhancing mental health and relationship dynamics.
Researchers have found that mentalization is an undervalued treatment for people in addiction recovery. Mentalization-based treatment helps people reflect upon and redirect urges and impulses. Knowing one's mind, feelings, triggers, and motivations, however conflicted, improves outcomes in work, love, life, and re-creating a life. Better understanding of the inner states and traits of others is also useful. Secure attachment fosters mentalization or a capacity to understand, process, and manage one's inner life.
According to a new study by Bar Ilan University's Leeav Sheena-Peer and colleagues (2025), emptiness isn't unique to BPD-but, unlike the form it takes in other disorders, it tends to be more chronic. Even so, as the authors note, "the high prevalence does not necessarily imply that it is static over time" (p. 404). Maybe, they proposed, by tracking emptiness on a daily basis, these fluctuations could be captured and better understood.