Thoughts on Judgement And Empathy

Long psychiatric interviews are especially helpful to realize the importance of getting the longitudinal story. Subconsciously, by spending 2-3 hours in the interviews with our patients, we have a lesser tendency to judge them because those times spent listening really allowed ourselves to be put in their shoes and see things from our patients’ perspectives. It made me ask myself: so how come it is much easier to judge somebody based on a single event when we don’t know the full story? Well in those situati