Author — A.P. Egides. The book «How to understand people, or the Psychological drawing of personality»
Remember: empathy is the ability to feel into the psyche of another with sympathy and empathy. At the same time, empathy is understood as passive empathy (in contrast to DHEI, that is, effective group emotional identification, the essence of which is active help). Hysteroids feel badly for another person, almost like paranoid ones, with the only difference being that paranoid ones often don’t even hide it, and hysteroids still want to look kind, in connection with which they use attributes of humanity.
Here is a conversation with a friend whom he has not seen for a long time: “Old man, how are you, like a daughter, like a wife, how are things in general, tell me, tell me, oh, you know, and me yesterday … (followed by a long story about himself) . Well, you call, tell us something else about yourself, well, bye, bye, ciao, orividerchi, aufviderzeen … »
The hysteroid does not feel insincerity towards himself, because he himself is often insincere. But formally, everything is observed — everyone treats him well, he believes, since they only say good things. Feedback is close to zero.
The hysteroid has not only empathy at a low level, but even more so DHEI. He is inclined to help only when others see and appreciate it, if the person he helps speaks about this help in very positive tones, and if not, then the hysteroid loses all interest in this.
The hysteroid can be advised that he constantly, literally every five minutes, would send himself impulse self-hypnosis: I am more interested in others than in myself. This will also help improve its reputation. And if he doesn’t give himself such signals, then he will be known as an egoist, egocentrist, unresponsive, inhumane, quarrelsome, uninteresting as an interlocutor, etc.