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The article offers the author's view on an article that represents an attempt to systematize the different approaches to the knowledge on empathy. He mentions that the motherly channel of communication is the most appropriate primal to connect with regressed patients. He also proposes that the most appropriate attunement for severely regressed patients is the offer and establishment of corrective symbiotic experience in the framework of corrective emotional experience.

This article highlights specific and unique challenges which confront the therapist when dealing with patients suffering from the effects of trauma within a war situation - refugees, displaced persons and relatives of those who have `disappeared' in war. In presenting clinical vignettes, the author focuses on war in Croatia, whilst also demonstrating how many problems are common to all those in war situations, including the therapist as well as patients, particularly problems and dilemmas in countertransference and empathy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]