I feel you : the surprising power of extreme empathy

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I feel you : the surprising power of extreme empathy

Title remainder

the surprising power of extreme empathy

Statement of responsibility

Cris Beam

Creator

• Beam, Cris
• trueBeam, Cris

Author

• Beam, Cris

Subject

• trueEmotions
• trueEmpathy
• Empathy
• Empathy
• Interpersonal relations
• trueCaring
• PSYCHOLOGY -- General
• PSYCHOLOGY -- Interpersonal Relations
• Psychology
• trueSociety and culture -- Psychology and human behavior
• PSYCHOLOGY -- Emotions
• Emotions
• Emotions

Genre

• trueSociety and culture

Language

eng

Summary

• "A cogent, gorgeous examination of empathy, illuminating the myths, the science, and the power behind this transformative emotion. Empathy has become a gaping fault line in American culture. Pioneering programs aim to infuse our legal and educational systems with more empathic thinking, even as pundits argue over whether we should bother empathizing with our political opposites at all. Meanwhile, we are inundated with the buzzily termed "empathic marketing"--Which may very well be a contradiction in terms. In I Feel You, Cris Beam carves through the noise with a revelatory exploration of how we perform empathy, how it is learned, what it can do--indeed, what empathy is in the first place. She takes us to the labs where the neural networks of compassion are being mapped, and the classrooms where children are being trained to see others' views. Beam visits courtrooms and prisons, asking how empathy might transform our justice system. She travels to places wracked by oppression and genocide, where reconciliation seems impossible, to report on efforts to heal society's deepest wounds through human connection. And finally, she turns to how we, as individuals, can foster compassion for ourselves. Brimming with the sensitive and nuanced storytelling that has made Beam one of our most respected journalists, I Feel You is an eye-opening affirmation of empathy's potential"--
• "A rigorously researched and intensely moving examination of empathy: how it works, how it transforms us, and how our society misunderstands it"--

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• Provided by publisher
• Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

152.4/1

Index

index present

LC call number

BF575.E55

LC item number

B43 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult