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Dedicated and committed that empathy becomes less of a rumor and more of an expanded reality in the community...
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Predictions and Trends in Empathy for 2015
Looking for patterns, this top ten list engages trends, innovations, and surprises that promote or narrow the expansion of empathy in the community. By definition, empathy is knowing what the other feels because I feel it too; not as a… Read More ›
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A Rumor of Empathy: Rewriting Empathy in the Context of Philosophy, the book, now available….
Here is the short version of the short version: The deep, underground history of empathy is surfaced and reconstructed in Hume, Kant, Lipps, Freud, Scheler, Stein, and Husserl. A rumor of empathy is engaged in vicarious feeling, receptivity, empathic understanding, empathic interpretation, and… Read More ›
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Top Ten Publications
The following professional publications have garnered the most downloads over the years. They are included for those visitors to this site who have an academic, scholarly interest. These are peer-reviewed publications and tend to be scholarly. No apologies for that – just… Read More ›
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Update: Hume on SYMPATHY and EMPATHY
HumeOnSympathyEmpathy (Article): There is a long history in British empiricist philosophy that engages “sympathy.” There are at least four meanings of “sympathy” in the writings of David Hume, dating to his a Treatise on Human Nature (1739). Hume has at least four distinct… Read More ›
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Hot Potatoes: Top Ten Misunderstandings about Psychoanalysis
I have been talking with people in the community about what is “psychoanalysis.” The result? Many people no longer understand what is psychoanalysis – if they ever did understand it – or, even worse, have confused ideas about it. For… Read More ›
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Update: What to look for in selecting a psychotherapist
Three criteria are front and center in selecting a psychotherapist: empathy, schedule, and cost. I might say “empathy, empathy, and empathy,” but cost and schedule are important too. Absent a warm empathic, gracious and generous listening, many people find that psychotherapy is indistinguishable from going to the dentist – i.e., painful. When delivered in a context of empathy, psychotherapy can make a difference in getting unstuck, eliminating or reducing emotional upset, and expanding possibilities for personal growth. My commitment is to deliver empathy.
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Review of Decety’s Empathy: From Bench to Bedside: Decety’s Archiecture of Empathy Gets it Just Right
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 ›
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Review: Failure Has a Great Future: The Analysis of Failure by Arnold Goldberg – a Resounding Success
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 ›
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Empathy in the Context of Philosophy Reviewed by Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray
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 ›
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Interview by Edwin Rutsch with Lou Agosta on Building a Culture of Empathy, the Video
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 ›
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