Empathy

by (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
Harvard Business Review Press (May 9, 2017), 144 pages Amazon

Empathy is credited as a factor in improved relationships and even better product development. But while it’s easy to say "just put yourself in someone else’s shoes," the reality is that understanding the motivations and emotions of others often proves elusive. This book helps you understand what empathy is, why it’s important, how to surmount the hurdles that make you less empathetic―and when too much empathy is just too much.   This volume includes the work of: Daniel Goleman, Annie McKee,
Adam Waytz, etc.

Empathy
From Bench to Bedside (Social Neuroscience)

By Jean Decety (Editor)
The MIT Press, 2011, 336 pages, Amazon
Academic

The experience of empathy is a powerful interpersonal phenomenon and a necessary means of everyday social communication. It facilitates parental care of offspring. It enables us to live in groups and socialize. It paves the way for the development of moral reasoning and motivates prosocial behavior. 

Empathy
What it is and why it matters 

by David Howe 
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 248 pages, Amazon

David Howe's fascinating new book examines what empathy is, why we have it and how it develops. He explores the important part empathy plays in child development and therapeutic work as well as its significance for how society organizes itself.

This work begins from our Socratic ignorance of empathy. It applies four philosophical methods – phenomenology, self psychology, language analysis, and interpretive suspicion (hermeneutics) to generating a clearing for empathy as authentic being with one another in community. In philosophical empathy, the other individual humanizes the one who, in turn, give humanity back to the other in everyday empathy.

by Lou Agosta

CreateSpace Independent Publishing; 2018, 394 pages, Amazon

Breezy yet brainy, Empathy Lessons provides 30 compelling and actionable lessons in restoring and expanding empathy in relationships and emotional well-being, at home and at work, in parenting and in business, at school and in the private consulting room, in the corporate jungle and in the empathy desert, in the public market and in the intimacy of the bedroom. Empathy is oxygen for the soul.

Humanity on a Tightrope
Thoughts on Empathy, Family, and Big Changes for a Viable Future 

by Paul R. Ehrlich, Robert E. Ornstein 
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2012, 210 pages, Amazon

The feelings of empathy and semblance is to be cultivated and are extremely important in order to avert the collapsing civilization. It is high time that we educate ourselves with the basics of empathy that we have lost while being focused on catering to our individual needs. We all need to renew our knowledge of this one indispensable trait which can help all of us in thinking about our common life-planet.

Humanizing Health Care
Creating Cultures of Compassion With Nonviolent Communication

by Melanie Sears
Puddledancer Press,  2010, 112 pages, Amazon
Using the Nonviolent Communication process in healthcare.

When someone receives empathy, there is nothing to defend against so you are more likely to be seen as a friend. When you can empathize with anything they say, it gives them unconditional acceptance. This feels freeing to people and allows them to explore parts of themselves that they usually keep hidden.

Listening Well
The Art of Empathic Understanding

By William R Miller
Wipf and Stock  2018,  114 pages Amazon

Are you a good listener? How well do you really know the people around you? A capacity for empathic understanding is hard-wired in our brains, but its full expression involves particular listening skills that are seldom learned through ordinary experience. Through clear explanation, specific examples, and practical exercises, Dr. Miller offers a step-by-step process for developing your skillfulness in empathic listening. With a solid basis in sixty years of scientific research, these communication skills are not limited to professionals, and can be learned and applied in your everyday life.

Nonviolent Communication
A Language of Life, Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships

by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Puddledancer Press, 2015, 280 pages, Amazon

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being.

Organizing through Empathy

by Kathryn Pavlovich (Editor), Keiko Krahnke (Editor)
Routledge, 2013, 248 pages, Amazon

This book challenges the existing paradigm of capitalism by providing scientific evidence and empirical data that empathy is the most important organizing mechanism. The book is unique in that it provides a comprehensive review of the transformational qualities of empathy in personal, organizational and local contexts

Stand in My Shoes
Kids Learning About Empathy

by Bob Sornson
Love and Logic Press, 2013, 30 pages, Amazon

The Age of Empathy
Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society

By Frans de Waal
Crown, 2009, 304 pages, Amazon

Humans overestimate the complexity of empathy. If you tell the average psychologist there's empathy in animals, they will say that's not possible. They think empathy means you consciously put yourself in the shoes of somebody else. We now know from human research that there’s a lot of empathy in automatic responses.

De Waal, Frans (2010) The Age of Empathy: Natures Lessons for a Kinder Society (London, Souvenir Press)

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

by Karen Armstrong
Anchor, 2011, 240 pages, Amazon

Karen Armstrong believes that while compassion is intrinsic in all human beings, each of us needs to work diligently to cultivate and expand our capacity for compassion.

Well-Designed
How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love

by Jon Kolko
Harvard Business Review Press,  224 pages, Amazon
Empathy in human-centered design.

The key, says Kolko, is empathy. You need to deeply understand customer needs and feelings, and this understanding must be reflected in the product. In successive chapters of the book, we see how leading companies use a design process of storytelling and iteration that evokes positive emotions, changes behavior, and creates deep engagement.

Wired to Care
How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy
 
by Dev Patnaik,  
FT Press,  2009, 266 pages, Amazon
Empathy in business
 

How can you create new value if your company doesn't have a gut sense for what people outside its walls actually value? The challenge facing business today isn't a lack of innovation, it's lack of empathy.