The concept of empathy has various types in clinical contexts and has been a subject of ongoing debate.Clinical empathy is considered an experiential understanding of patients and their behavioral expressions.This experience includes the experience of the patient's perceptual feelings,general feelings,life phenomena,causal relationships,and many other psychological feelings.On one hand,empathy for healthcare professionals is a fundamental,immediate self-experiential behavior;on the other hand,it involves an"non-originally given"other-experiential aspect of patients within this primal self-experience.It has three phases,often fulfilling only the first one,and this phase is foundational,preceding any cognitive or affective empathy.This conceptualization of clinical empathy to some extent addresses the controversies surrounding the concept.