Prof. Schore: Early Emotional Development
The empathic caregiver can soothe and calm as well as as enhance joy, interest and excitement. This shapes the child’s ability to communicate emotio…
Tag: empathy
Empathy: And its Absence
Perhaps empathy is most knowable in deficiency or perceived absence – the moments when we believe that someone neither knows, nor cares, how someone…
Marriage Restoration:A Caring Project
While the ultimate success of any therapy is the couple’s commitment to staying together and fully investing in whatever they need to do to make it …
Origins of Empathy
Mafessoni and Lachmann posited that animals, including humans, can engage in the act of simulating the minds of others.
Empathy and Moral Decision
Could you harm another person to save yourself? Could you kill one person to save five? The answer depends neither on our ability to share someone els…
Do We Always Want Empathy?
A recently published paper suggests that although empathy is often portrayed as a virtue, people who express empathy are not necessarily viewed favora…
Anti Depressants Decrease Empathy?
After three months of antidepressant treatment, the research revealed relevant differences: patients reported their level of empathy to be lower, and …
Social Media and Shame
For better or worse, the internet and social media have significantly amplified humanity’s means of public shaming, taking victims from the town squ…
Kamasutra: Valentine’s Takeaways!
The Kamasutra has attained its classical status because it is at bottom about essential, unchangeable human attributes—lust, love, shyness, rejectio…
Unconscious Bias and what to do about it
Our brain automatically tells us that we are safe with people who look, think and act similar to us.
These automatic preferences and prejudices are wh…
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