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I feel you : the surprising power of extreme empathy / Cris Beam.

By: Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018Description: xviii, 251 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780544558168 (hardback)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: I feel youDDC classification:
  • 152.4/1 23
LOC classification:
  • BF575.E55 B43 2018
Other classification:
  • PSY013000 | PSY017000 | PSY000000
Summary: "A cogent, gorgeous examination of empathy, illuminating the myths, the science, and the power behind this transformative emotion<BR /> <BR />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.<BR /><BR /> 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.<BR /><BR /> 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"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "A rigorously researched and intensely moving examination of empathy: how it works, how it transforms us, and how our society misunderstands it"-- Provided by publisher.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks BF575 .E55 B43 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001428944

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A cogent, gorgeous examination of empathy, illuminating the myths, the science, and the power behind this transformative emotion<BR /> <BR />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.<BR /><BR /> 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.<BR /><BR /> 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"-- Provided by publisher.

"A rigorously researched and intensely moving examination of empathy: how it works, how it transforms us, and how our society misunderstands it"-- Provided by publisher.

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