Born for Love - Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered

Zusatztext "Strikingly original and thought-provoking! Born for Love explores the crucially important role empathy plays in all of our lives. It should be required reading for every parent! partner! and friend." Informationen zum Autor Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D., is the senior fellow of the ChildTrauma Academy (www.ChildTrauma.org), a not-for-profit organization based in Houston that is dedicated to improving the lives of high-risk children, and he is an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago. He is the author, with Maia Szalavitz, of The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog , a bestselling book based on his work with maltreated children. Maia Szalavitz is the author of Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids (Riverhead, 2006), which led to state investigations into the industry as well as federal legislation. She is a senior fellow at media watchdog STATS.org and has written for the New York Times , Elle , Time magazine online, and the Washington Post . Klappentext Uncover the startling importance of empathy From birth, when babies' fingers instinctively cling to those of adults, their bodies and brains seek an intimate connection—a bond made possible by empathy, the remarkable ability to love and to share the feelings of others. In this unforgettable book, award-winning science journalist Maia Szalavitz and renowned child-psychiatrist Bruce D. Perry explain how empathy develops, why it is essential both to human happiness and for a functional society, and how it is threatened in the modern world. Zusammenfassung Explains how empathy develops, why it is essential for our development into healthy adults, and how it is threatened in the modern world. This title shows that compassion underlies the qualities that make society work - trust, altruism, collaboration, love, charity-and how difficulties related to empathy are key factors in social problems....

Product details

• Authors: Bruce D Perry, Bruce D. Perry, Bruce D./ Szalavitz Perry, Maia Szalavitz, Szalavitz Maia
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.04.2011
• EAN: 9780061656798
• ISBN: 978-0-06-165679-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 204 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Psychology: emotions, Mind, body, spirit: thought and practice, Parenting: advice and issues, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Memory improvement and thinking techniques, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Parenting / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY: Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY: Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY: Developmental / Child, SCIENCE: Cognitive Science, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Education, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Alternative Family