Amazon The Power of Empathy Category:  Health/Wellness Publisher: Wiley ISBN-10:  0452282284 Pages: 288 ISBN-13: 9780452282285 Empathy, an innate human capacity that gives us the ability to understand the unique experiences of another person, is the most overlooked component of relationships. By allowing us to connect with one another on a meaningful and fulfilling level, it "can help and heal us all. This excellent book shows you how" (Edward Hallowell, M.D., author of Connect). Using a practical and inspiring plan for making empathy a vital part of your everyday life, discover: • Why empathy is crucial to finding love • How to be an empathic listener • How empathy can improve sex and create lasting intimacy • How empathy differs from sympathy • 10 steps to avoiding the pitfalls of negative empathy • How empathy can help rebuild a relationship and restore confidence, trust, and faith Prescriptive and provocative, The Power of Empathy shows us how we can transform our lives-and the lives of those we love. Empathy, an innate human capacity that gives us the ability to understand the unique experiences of another person, is the most overlooked component of relationships. By allowing us to connect with one another on a meaningful and fulfilling level, it "can help and heal us all. This excellent book shows you how" (Edward Hallowell, M.D., author of Connect). Using a practical and inspiring plan for making empathy a vital part of your everyday life, discover: • Why empathy is crucial to finding love • How to be an empathic listener • How empathy can improve sex and create lasting intimacy • How empathy differs from sympathy • 10 steps to avoiding the pitfalls of negative empathy • How empathy can help rebuild a relationship and restore confidence, trust, and faith Prescriptive and provocative, The Power of Empathy shows us how we can transform our lives-and the lives of those we love. Excerpt Empathy, an innate human capacity that gives us the ability to understand the unique experiences of another person, is the most overlooked component of relationships. By allowing us to connect with one another on a meaningful and fulfilling level, it "can help and heal us all. This excellent book shows you how" (Edward Hallowell, M.D., author of Connect). Using a practical and inspiring plan for making empathy a vital part of your everyday life, discover: • Why empathy is crucial to finding love • How to be an empathic listener • How empathy can improve sex and create lasting intimacy • How empathy differs from sympathy • 10 steps to avoiding the pitfalls of negative empathy • How empathy can help rebuild a relationship and restore confidence, trust, and faith Prescriptive and provocative, The Power of Empathy shows us how we can transform our lives-and the lives of those we love.

Publishers Weekly
From Publishers Weekly
In an engaging work that is part guidebook and part heartfelt meditation, Ciaramicoli, a practicing psychologist who rejects the pervasive medical practice of labeling and medicating human anguish, contends that it is empathy--not fear, not sympathy, not drugs--that holds the key to mental health. Arguing that the "capacity to understand and respond to the unique experiences of another" is not only ubiquitous in relationships but is actually "an innate force, part of our biological inheritance" that is necessary for survival, he ponders empathy's many faces (including its "dark side") in the first half of the book. In the second half, he describes, and coaches readers on practicing the eight expressions of empathy: honesty, humility, acceptance, tolerance, gratitude, faith, hope and forgiveness. Inspired, in part, by his brother's suicide 26 years ago (which he believes was caused partly by a failure of empathy), Ciaramicoli vigorously examines empathy's place in an astonishing array of everyday situations--in sexual intimacy and friendly banter, in the natural world and the arena of sales and advertising--as a force of evil and a force of good. In the end, Ciaramicoli's meticulous exploration of the "invisible connections" of true empathy illuminates how the reader can use this long-misunderstood social skill to live a more safe and fulfilled life. Agent, Jane Dystel. 10-city author tour. (Apr.)
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Larry Dossey Review
Lucid, wise, and compassionate. -- Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Reinventing Medicine and Healing Words