Generous, funny, moving, and short: it could be the perfect Oscars speech. 2.50pm Commiserations to Nicolas Cage, who just lost out on a Golden Raspberry Award-the anti-Oscar-for his soul-shaking role in the Christian end-of-the-world thriller Left Behind.
Contrasts Between Compassion Fatigue and Related Concepts. Compassion Fatigue is the latest in an evolving concept that is known in the field of Traumatology as Secondary traumatic stress. Most often this phenomenon is associated with the cost of caring (Figley, 1982) for others in emotional pain. There are a number of terms that describe this phenomenon.
For other uses, see Sympathy (disambiguation). Sympathy (from the Greek words syn together and pathos feeling which means fellow-feeling) is the perception, understanding, and reaction to the distress or need of another life form. This empathic concern is driven by a switch in viewpoint, from a personal perspective to the perspective of another group or individual who is in need.