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ReviewFrontiers in psychology2025

In the mood of the other: emotional contagion, empathic knowledge, and intuitive diagnosis in psychiatry.

Andrea Altobrando, Leonardo Zaninotto

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Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Andrea AltobrandoFISPPA Department, University of Padova, Padua, Italy.
Leonardo ZaninottoDepartment of Mental Health, ULSS 6 Eugenea, Padua, Italy.

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Abstract

In this study we critically examine the phenomenological foundations of intuitive diagnosis in Psychiatry by integrating Max Scheler's concept of emotional contagion with Edith Stein's three-stage model of empathy. We argue that what Scheler calls emotional contagion offers a useful pre-reflective, bodily-affective resonance that precedes and facilitates deeper empathic understanding of the subject's experience. Then, we suggest that Stein's analysis of empathy, which is based on a three-step process-i.e., the emergence of the other's experience, its imaginative explication, and the final comprehensive objectification-may account for the role of imaginative empathic immersion in diagnostic assessment. This imaginative engagement, grounded in bodily co-originality, allows clinicians to apprehend the subject's world beyond mere perceptual awareness. We contend that Scheler's emotional contagion and Stein's model of empathy can be productively harnessed within a comprehensive diagnostic framework to provide a raw intuitive and imaginative substrate for further cognitive elaboration.

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atmospheric diagnosisdiagnostic intuitionEdith Steinemotional contagionempathyMax Schelerphenomenological psychiatry

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PMID41488949
PMCPMC12757403

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