A focus on storytelling at one medical school allows patients with dementia to relate to the medical students who may one day provide their care, and vice versa… Throughout antiquity, the human animal has told stories to make sense of the world,…

It might have been pure coincidence, but last month, Bill Drayton, speaking at Toronto’s MaRS Discovery District and Bill Gates at Stanford University in California, made separate cases for why empathy is so important to the social change movement.&nbs…

To combat shame, she says, we need empathy, because “empathy’s the antidote to shame.”If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount in a Petri…

The book Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural Practices, Edited by Dee Reynolds and Matthew Reason is published by Intellect Ltd.   A key interdisciplinary concept in our understanding of social interaction across creative and cultural pra…