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We argue that what Scheler calls emotional contagion offers a useful pre-reflective, bodily-affective resonance that precedes and facilitates deeper empathic understanding of the subject\u2019s experience. Then, we suggest that Stein\u2019s analysis of empathy, which is based on a three-step process\u2014i.e., the emergence of the other\u2019s experience, its imaginative explication, and the final comprehensive objectification\u2014may account for the role of imaginative empathic immersion in diagnostic assessment. This imaginative engagement, grounded in bodily co-originality, allows clinicians to apprehend the subject\u2019s world beyond mere perceptual awareness. 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