Empathy Lessons

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• Top 10 Empathy Trends in 2021

  By Lou Agosta on January 2, 2021

  

  It’s gettin’ crowded under the bus. We confront the paradox of “embracing” our socially distanced neighbor. There is something about humans that makes us want to breathe on one another. Empathy? There is nothing that says an empathy trend has to be positive – but don’t try and hold your breath. Expanding neighborliness is the ultimate empathy trend.

• Review: From Passions to Emotions

  By Lou Agosta on December 15, 2020

  The emotions are much more than the disruptive passions such as appetite and desire and anger (and so on), since the emotions have come to include feelings of neighborliness, sentiments of kindness, pleasure in music and intellectual inquiry, and so on.

• Narcissism gets a bad rap: On empathy and narcissism

  By Lou Agosta on December 6, 2020

  

  Narcissism has gotten a bad name. “Narcissism” has become a euphemism – a polite description – for a variety of integrity outages and bad behaviors. These extend from antisocial, psychopathic actions through bullying and domestic violence all the way to bipolar spectrum disorders or moral insanity. “Narcissism” has become the label of choice when an individual is behaving like a jerk…

• Empathy and the True Believer

  By Lou Agosta on November 29, 2020

  

  It is a high probability you are dealing with a True Believer when, in the face of a setback to the Belief System (whether religion, political party, social movement, or spiritual cause) the adherent to the cause Doubles Down. Key term: double down.

• Noted in passing: Arnold Goldberg, MD, innovator in self psychology and empathy (1929-2020)

  By Lou Agosta on November 12, 2020

  

  Arnold I. Goldberg, MD (1929-2020) was an innovator in psychoanalysis and self psychology, a prolific author (really prolific!), an inspiring educator, and simply a wonderful human being.

• A Rumor of Empathy is now a podcast (series)

  By Lou Agosta on November 8, 2020

  

  A rumor of empathy learns about a report of an alleged example of empathy in the work, actions, or conversation of a person or organization. I then reach out to the person and talk to them in detail about the work they are doing to confirm or disconfirm the validity of the rumor.

• Empathy and humor – resistance to empathy?

  By Lou Agosta on October 22, 2020

  

  Both empathy and humor create and expand community. Both empathy and humor cross the boundary between self and other. Both empathy and humor relieve stress and reduce tension.

• Empathy and Architecture: On Foundations

  By Lou Agosta on October 5, 2020

  

  Empathy is about relationships. Architecture is about building things that last. Building lasting relationships? A marriage made in heaven?

• Empathy and Vulnerability

  By Lou Agosta on September 20, 2020

  

  Empathy means being firm but flexible about boundaries. The most empathic people that I know are also the strongest and most assertive regarding respect for boundaries. Being empathic does not mean being a push over. You wouldn’t want to mess with them. Where such people show up, empathy lives—shame and bullying have no place.

• The trouble with – the trouble with – empathy (this is not a typo!)

  By Lou Agosta on September 6, 2020

  

  Empathy flourishes in a space of acceptance and tolerance. But acceptance and tolerance have their dark side, too. People can be intolerant and unaccepting. Be accepting of what? Be accepting of intolerance? Be tolerant of intolerance? Yes, be tolerant, but… Read More ›

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