Quotes from Heinz Kohut

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.

The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!

If you want to hurt somebody and you want to know where his vulnerable spot is you have to know him, before you can put in the right dig, that's very important.

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell