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

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.

• | By (Author): Bruce D Perry, Maia Szalavitz (Author)
• | Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
• | Publication Date: May 05, 2011
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 384 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 0061656798
• | ISBN-13: 9780061656798