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• Empathy is hard in the patriarchy

  By Lou Agosta on October 10, 2023

  

  So far, the two-ton elephant in the room is “Maybe men and women really do have different brains – or a combination of brains and early experiences that produce different results from the same input.” Note this applies either in… Read More ›

• The beginning of my empathy lessons

  By Lou Agosta on August 28, 2023

  

  My empathy lessons started when I was about four years old. My Mom would tell me bedtime stories. Right before bed, she would weave a narrative out of the significant events of a day in the life of an “on the go,” four-year-old boy.

• Summer Reading: The Song of Our Scars by Haider Warraich

  By Lou Agosta on August 8, 2023

  

  To course-correct our approach to pain, we need to change the story of chronic pain – pushing back on the voices attempting to convince us all pain is catastrophic and life threatening and needs immediate attention over everything else right now – but yet – pain is world consuming

• Beloved on Juneteenth in the context of empathy

  By Lou Agosta on June 27, 2023

  

  Forced to make a decision that no one should have to make; that no one can (really) make; and yet that she did make. This survivor is also a now a perpetrator. Moral trauma.

• Summer Reading: Wonder Confronts Certainty: by Gary Saul Morson (Reviewed)

  By Lou Agosta on May 29, 2023

  

  Novelistic truth teaches the reader to give up absolute truth—certainty—and learn to dance in the dynamics of life’s sometimes chaotic but committed conversations in which dogmatic agreement yields to the give and take of empathic relatedness.

• Rhetorical Empathy – a primer

  By Lou Agosta on April 9, 2023

  

  At first, empathy and rhetoric seem to be at cross purposes – yet the speaker without empathy is not likely to be effective or persuasive, no matter how much we may disagree

• Historical empathy, strict construction of the US Constitution – and guns

  By Lou Agosta on March 28, 2023

  

  Whatever the Founding Fathers intended with the Second Amendment, they did NOT intend: Sandy Hook. They did not intend Nashville, Covenant School. They did not intend Uvalde, Parkland, Columbine, Buffalo, NY, Tops Friendly. They did not intend some 119 school shootings and counting since 2018.

• Top Ten Empathy Trends for 2023

  By Lou Agosta on January 5, 2023

  

  Empathy is a practice and priority, not a mere psychological mechanism. Practicing empathy is a way of being in the world, creating a safe space of openness, acceptance and toleration. In the face of a contagion of Omicron, we need a contagion of empathy.

• Review: Empathy and Mental Health by Arthur J. Clark

  By Lou Agosta on September 10, 2022

  

  As a young man, Arthur J. Clark heard Carl Rogers speak and was inspired to devote his life’s work to applying empathy in education, counseling, and talk therapy.

• Review: Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher by Alfred Tauber

  By Lou Agosta on July 15, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  Freud attended the lectures of Franz Brentano in Vienna in 1874. Brentano was committed to establishing psychology as an empirical science based on the analysis of intentionality as the defining feature of consciousness. Brentano’s approach excluded the possibility of an unconscious as a realm of intentions unknown to the subject.

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