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• Review of Decety’s Empathy: From Bench to Bedside: Decety’s Archiecture of Empathy Gets it Just Right

  By Lou Agosta on July 3, 2013 • ( 2 )

  Empathy: From Bench to Bedside, edited by Jean Decety. Cambrdige, MA: The MIT Press, 2012. Short Review: Two thumbs Up. Longer Review: The thematic unity to this wide-ranging and diverse anthology on empathy is available in thinking of empathy as… Read More ›

• Review: Failure Has a Great Future: The Analysis of Failure by Arnold Goldberg – a Resounding Success

  By Lou Agosta on June 23, 2013

  

  For complete review, click here: GoldbergAnalyticFailureReview2014 Short Review: Two thumbs up. The power of Arnold Goldberg’s approach in The Analysis of Failure: An Analysis of Failed Cases in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (Routledge) is twofold. First, if a practice or method cannot… Read More ›

• Empathy in the Context of Philosophy Reviewed by Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray

  By Lou Agosta on June 18, 2013

  Review – Empathy in the Context of Philosophy by Lou Agosta Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 Review by Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray Jan 31st 2012 (Volume 16, Issue 5) With Empathy in the Context of Philosophy, Lou Agosta seeks to make a philosophical contribution to… Read More ›

• Interview by Edwin Rutsch with Lou Agosta on Building a Culture of Empathy, the Video

  By Lou Agosta on May 27, 2013

  Edwin Rutsch, Founder and Director of the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy (www.CultureOfEmpathy.com), does an on camera interview with Lou Agosta, discussing issues and variables on the critical path to building a culture of empathy. No one said… Read More ›

• A Rumor of Empathy in the Struggle Against Domestic Violence (Update: 2014-03-21)

  By Lou Agosta on May 15, 2013

  Here is a sixteen minute educational video produced and edited by yours truly featuring Serena Low, Executive Director of Apna Ghar (“Our Home”) which operates a shelter and crisis hot line for women in Chicago. She nets out a forty… Read More ›

• Heidegger’s Special Hermeneutic of Empathy in Being and Time…the Movie

  By Lou Agosta on May 8, 2013

  This educational video includes a presentation by Lou Agosta on Heidegger’s call for a special hermeneutic of empathy in Heidegger’s book Being and Time.  The different aspects of such a Heideggerian inquiry into and definition of empathy are spelled out… Read More ›

• A Rumor of Empathy in Higher Education, the Movie

  By Lou Agosta on May 6, 2013

  This educational video contains an interview with Ron Kimberling about the changes occurring in higher education with the success of tax paying private schools that are expanding practical, career-oriented education, learning, and training. Ron speaks movingly of his own autobiographical… Read More ›

• A Rumor of Empathy…in Psychology (the movie)

  By Lou Agosta on April 28, 2013 • ( 1 )

  This educational video explores empathy in the listening and speaking of the community of psychologists, psychotherapists, and those committed to emotional and human well-being. That about covers it. Where is empathy present and where is it missing? Should one expect… Read More ›

• A Rumor of Empathy…from Tuskegee to “Mud and Squalor”…the Movie

  By Lou Agosta on April 21, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  “Mud and Squalor” is the nickname of the US Army Air Corps base out of which in 1943 David James and his mentor, Carroll Langston, flew  P-51 single engine, pursuit aircraft during World War II. Mr. James talks about his… Read More ›

• A Rumor of Empathy at Apna Ghar in the Fight Against Gender Violence …. the Movie

  By Lou Agosta on February 25, 2013 • ( 2 )

  This is an on camera interview with Serena Low, Executive Director, Apna Ghar (“Our Home”), captured on December 13, 2012. Apna Ghar (“Our Home”) operates a Hot Line and Shelter for women who are dealing with domestic abuse, intimate partner… Read More ›