Sam writes and speaks about psychopathy & narcissism. He’s the author of Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited. He describes himself as a person devoid of empathy. “I do not possess empathy: I am a thrice-diagnosed psychopathic narcissist.” Nar…

Empathy research is thriving these days. Several new books enthusiastically champion an increase in empathy as a cure for humanity’s ills. This enthusiasm may be misplaced, however. In 2008, Karina Encarnacion, an eight year-old girl from Mi…

 In The Bro Code and Generation M, filmmaker Thomas Keith examined how American culture bombards young men with sexist and misogynistic messages. In The Empathy Gap, he looks more closely at the ways these messages short-circui…

Dr. Thomas Keith will join us to discuss his latest filmThe Empathy Gap: Masculinity and the Courage to Change, which looks closely at “key messages about manhood that boys absorb from the culture – that they should acquire materi…

With its emphasis on personal detachment, mindfulness seems to this old man to undermine the social literacy that is the human genius. We possess the empathy to imagine, to be in another’s shoes.And that literacy is especially needed in the moder…

Shifting from a reputation as the “fix-it” person to a personal relationship with a clinician can be vital to successful overall technology management and professional success.To make this transition, technicians and managers must come to u…