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Born for Love
Bruce D Perry
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Description for Born for Love
Paperback. Explains how empathy develops, why it is essential for our development into healthy adults, and how it is threatened in the modern world. This title shows that compassion underlies the qualities that make society work - trust, altruism, collaboration, love, charity-and how difficulties related to empathy are key factors in social problems. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 298.
From birth, when babies' fingers instinctively cling to those of adults, their bodies and brains seek an intimate connection, a bond made possible by empathy-the ability to love and to share the feelings of others. In this provocative book, renowned child psychiatrist Bruce D. Perry and award-winning science journalist Maia Szalavitz interweave research and stories from Perry's practice with cutting-edge scientific studies and historical examples to explain how empathy develops, why it is essential for our development into healthy adults, and how it is threatened in the modern world. Perry and Szalavitz show that compassion underlies the qualities that make ... Read more
From birth, when babies' fingers instinctively cling to those of adults, their bodies and brains seek an intimate connection, a bond made possible by empathy-the ability to love and to share the feelings of others. In this provocative book, renowned child psychiatrist Bruce D. Perry and award-winning science journalist Maia Szalavitz interweave research and stories from Perry's practice with cutting-edge scientific studies and historical examples to explain how empathy develops, why it is essential for our development into healthy adults, and how it is threatened in the modern world. Perry and Szalavitz show that compassion underlies the qualities that make ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780061656798
SKU
V9780061656798
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Ref
99-96
About Bruce D Perry
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Born for Love
"Empathy, and the ties that bind people into relationships, are key elements of happiness. Born for Love is truly fascinating."
Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project "Once in awhile a book changes the way I experience the world. This time it's Born For Love, by Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz. Their book ... Read more
Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project "Once in awhile a book changes the way I experience the world. This time it's Born For Love, by Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz. Their book ... Read more