Kathleen Barry is Professor Emerita of Penn State University and a feminist activist and sociologist. She is author of Unmaking War, Remaking Men: How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldiers and Ourselves. The book explores soldiers’ experiences through a politics of empathy – probing the psychopathy and sociopathy of war.
See her interview, authors talk and an overview of her workshop on Unmaking War and Building Empathy.
“So much of writing that has felt alive and electric is because I grant myself permission to write about what’s obsessing me,” the author of the best-selling “The Empathy Exams” said during a recent interview in the living…
Unless you’re off the grid, you saw evidence Friday evening. Think It Up, a celebrity-studded production, was broadcast across four major national television networks to raise money for our schools. Along with init…
Distancing and dehumanizing behavior actually compounds problem A nurse refuses to help an ailing alcoholic who is upset to find a hospital detox unit closed. These harsh, real-life scenarios helped inspire Eve Ekman, a doctoral student in soci…
Introduction to the Science of Empathy, Altruism, and Compassion Moderator: Paul Ekman, PhD Paul Gilbert, BA, MSc, PhD, FBPsS, OBE, Components of Compassion …See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion
