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How to Avoid the Empathy Trap
Do you prioritize other people's feelings over your own? You might be falling into the "empathy trap."
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Robin Stern, Ph.D., is the associate director for the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. She is a licensed psychoanalyst, educator, and author, with over twenty-five years of experience treating individuals, couples, and groups. Diana Divecha, Ph.D., is a developmental psychologist, a research affiliate of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and an OpEd Project Public Voices Fellow.
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