Empathy, Creativity and Psychopathology

This article summarises the recent attempts to find neural bases to concepts such as Empathy and Intersubjectivity. "Empathy" intervenes as an "intersubjective dialogue" between the mother and her child and the patient and the therapist. This intersubjective dialogue, which had already been described byAjuriaguerra, has found an attractive physiological base in the recent findings on mirror neurons, even though it still cannot be totally extrapolated to human beings. O the other hand, Art seeks also "intersubjective communication" that implies motivations and emotions in harmony with reason. In relation to this findings, a new scientific field has born, Neuroaesthetic, which is defined as the attempt to find neural bases to contemplate works of art and their creation.