[Empathic psychotherapy].

The paper specifies clinical essence of empathic psychotherapy, its underlying principles. Personal characteristics of a psychotherapist are a decisive factor in this psychotherapy carried out to provide: 1) emotional support of the patient, 2) baseline for stabilization of the patient's condition, 3) assurance of the physician in a valid choice of psychotherapy. The technique of the emotional impact on the patient conditionally divided into 3 stages, possible errors of the psychotherapist and ways of their correction are delineated.