Dark empathy allows you to recognize what someone is feeling without emotionally merging with them. You can identify distress ...

There are all types of people we come across when we’re in romantic relationships or relationships with friends or family members: the gaslighters, love bombers, narcissists and breadcrumbers, to name ...

Understanding what a toxic empath is and how they relate to narcissists can shed light on how these two characters behave and ...

It may seem that people with elevated Dark Triad traits are not empathic, but it isn't so simple. In a basic sense, empathy serves people higher in dark traits. Dark traits may be a "necessary evil", ...

It can be fun attempting to armchair-diagnose or label people that you’ve come across—especially when you find their behavior baffling or incomprehensible. And if someone’s treated you badly, it can ...

Brian was married for three years when he came to my office in despair about his wife, Elise. He had listened to podcasts about narcissistic abuse, but Elise didn’t fit the typical mold; she could be ...

You may have read recently about dark empaths, a personality type which has gained a great deal of recognition and traction, despite not being in the the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental ...

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People tend to think of empathy or caring about other people's feelings as a good thing, but in some conservative circles, there's a growing chorus of voices arguing that empathy could be bad.

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