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Empathy, the recognition of the self in the other, is an indispensable tool of observation, without which vast areas of human life, including man's behavior in the social field, remain unintelligible. Empathy, the expansion of the self to include the other, constitutes a powerful psychological bond between individuals which—more perhaps even than love,…—counteracts man's destructiveness against his fellows.—Heinz Kohut (, p. 705)1