Empathy is a subjective aspect of healing, and therefore suspect, given the current taste for objectivity (formal diagnosis, standardized methodologies). Bennett, a psychiatrist affiliated with Harvard Medical School, insightfully analyzes the history and the current role of empathy in mental health care, correlates its characteristics and clinical impact with current understanding of mind-brain relationships, provides both conceptual and anecdotal support for its importance, and suggests a model for its use. His discussion will interest mental health care workers of all stripes, as well as those who train them or make health policy.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR Aurther C. Bohart, Professor of Psychology, California State UniversityThe Empathic Healer...is an important book, and is must reading for those interested in how psychological healing occurs.