Yet this overlap is far from a holistic conflation of the two movements, so radically different were their aims. ... According to McConachie, "spectators do not wait to deploy empathy, but engage it unconsciously right from the start of every performance"7. In this way, empathy bridges the subject/object gap between the stage and the audience, rendering it difficult to categorise, (by nature of the empathetic cognitive links between spectator and performer) as a separate artistic realm, detached from life. ... From this, McConachie ultimately makes the overarching contention that "the differe...

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During a time of increasing mobility and migration across countries and continents, there is a high chance that immigrants from Non-Western cultures may seek psychotherapeutic help for themselves or for their children (Maiello, 1999). "Psychotherapy can be defined broadly as a special practice involving a designated healer (or therapist) and an identified client (or patient), with the particular purpose of solving a problem from which the client is suffering or promoting the health of the client's mind. ... Worldviews, cultural views and family beliefs influence the manner in which...

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