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Empathy in Time of War – Red Team, Red Team!
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The Empathy Diaries by Sherry Turkle (Reviewed)
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A Rumor of Empathy in Brené Brown’s Atlas of the Heart (Reviewed)
People who are able to name their emotions and feeling experience expanded power in getting what they want and need from other people. They also get expanded power in contributing to building meaningful connections and community. community. Try substituting the word “empathy,” for “connection.” It works.
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Top Ten Empathy Trends For 2022
A new year and a new virus variant? Being cynical and resigned is easy, and the empathy training is to drive out cynicism and resignation – then empathy naturally comes forth. If given half a chance. People want to be empathic. The prediction is that with a rigorous and critical empathy (and getting a very high percent of the population vaccinated), we are equal to the challenge.
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The holocaust of sex, entitled: The Right to Sex by Amin Srinivasan (Reviewed)
Srinivasan’s book is the holocaust of sex. The fires of the “holocaust” in question are not ones of passion or desire, but rather of anger and rage. Note the small “h” this time since there is only one Holocaust with a capital “H”. This holocaust is filled with the suffering of innocents, widespread injustice, and an awful lot of violence. It accurately paints a picture so bleak that further consciousness raising will likely expand our consciousness of misery and pain, nor do I here want to debate the need for it.
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Empathy and the Novel by Suzanne Keen (Reviewed)
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Empathy: Capitalist Tool (Part 3): Let’s do the numbers
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Empathy: Capitalist Tool (Part 2): “CEO” now means “Chief Empathy Officer”
Empathy is one of those things that are hard to delegate. This role shows up like another job responsibility with which the CEO of the organization is tasked—along with everything else that she already has to do. As if she did not already have enough alligators snapping at various parts of her anatomy, one has to be nice about it, too? But of course empathy is not niceness, though it is not about being un-nice. It is about knowing what others are experiencing, because one has a vicarious experience and then processing that further to expand boundaries and exercise leadership.
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Empathy: Capitalist Tool (Part 1): The Empathy Deficit in Business is Getting Attention
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Empathy and Literature: Grand Rounds Talk (rebroadcast): Oct 13, 2016
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Review: Empathy and Mental Health by Arthur J. Clark
September 10, 2022
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On Guns: Historical Empathy and Strict Constructionism of the US Constitution
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Radical empathy, a double bind, and moral trauma
February 17, 2023
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Review: Empathy, Embodiment, and the Person: Husserlian Investigations of Social Experience and the Self by James Jardine
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Top Ten Empathy Trends for 2023
January 5, 2023
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Empathy: Capitalist Tool (Part 3): Let’s do the numbers
November 14, 2021