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

Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz

Harper Collins, Apr 6, 2010 - Family & Relationships - 384 pages

“Bruce Perry is both a world-class creative scientist and a compassionate therapist.”

—Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia

 

Born for Love is the definitive book on empathy. Renowned psychiatrist Bruce Perry has appeared on Oprah, CNN, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, and other programs as an expert in this hot area of neuroscience, and has been cited as such in Newsweek, the New York Times, and The New Yorker (in a story written by Malcolm Gladwell). He and co-writer Maia Szalavitz explore empathy’s startling importance in human evolution and its significance for our children and our society. The authors of The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog present a powerful case that love is essential…and endangered.

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LibraryThing Review

User Review  - puttocklibrary - LibraryThing

An excellent book. Full of insights on why empathy is important in everyone's lives; why some people have it...and some people don't. A must read for anyone intending to have, or already have, young ...

wonderful book

User Review  - mainemomof2 - Overstock.com

This book has a fantastic chapter on autism and empathy. Recommended

Contents

• one heAven Is other PeoPLe: 7
• two In Your fAce: 27
• three MIssIng PeoPLe: 45
• four Intense WorLd: 72
• seven resILIence: 145
• eight the chAMeLeon: 170
• eleven on BABoons BrItIsh cIvIL: 232
• twelve WArM As IceLAnd: 259
• thirteen ALL together noW: 288
• epilogue PeoPLe And ProgrAMs: 323

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered
• Authors: Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2010
• ISBN: 0061987670, 9780061987670
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: Family & Relationships / Parenting / General; Psychology / Developmental / Child; Psychology / General