About the book: year / The monograph is dedicated to the phenomenon of empathy - a key “parameter” of the psychotherapeutic process and a necessary “condition” for the process of personality development. The essence, form, and main characteristics of empathy are discussed here, as well as differential diagnosis and ways to implement empathy. The book presents a view of empathy from the point of view of the East and West, explains the role of empathy in the processes of formation and development of personality, gives a description of the phenomena of sociogenic aggression, social loneliness and the crisis of the institution of marriage. “Individual relationships are essential relationships. We can come into contact with a person’s I-identified and I-non-identified roles, with his worldview, character, attitudes... but we can also interact with him. After all, the main thing in a person that is important to us is himself. Because only through him can we be ourselves, real. In such individual relationships - with oneself, with the world, with people - there is a huge potential for internal growth. Not remembering this, not being able to see this part of life, and not using this potential is a crime».