VARIETY OF FUNCTIONS OF EMPATHY IN THE CONTEXT OF DIFFERENT SYMPTOCOMPLEXES OF A PERSON
N the work the psychological phenomenon of empathy, the history of the term, its contents and contradictions in its interpretation by different authors are considered. It is shown that empathy can perform different functions in a symptocomplex of a narcissistic person, a perfectionist and in a situation of “conditional norms”. The authors carried out an investigation on 20 students from different universities and with different major with the age from 18 to 22. The results of the empirical study with an aim to examine the relation of empathy and its parameters with indicators of perfectionism, narcissism and the data of a number of other techniques are described in the paper. They show that empathy and its types can perform as a function of empathy, complicity, and used for manipulation, adjustment behavior and protection. The research is based on six approaches including “A diagnostics of a level of empathic abilities” (by V.V. Boiko) and “A diagnostics of a level of policommunicative empathy” (by I.M. Yusupova).