Susan Lanzoni is a historian of psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience. She teaches at Harvard University’s School of Continuing Education. Her work has been featured in TheAtlantic and American Scientist, and on Cognoscenti from WBUR, Boston’s NPR station.
Winner of the 2020 Cheiron Book Prize, sponsored by The
International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social
Sciences
“Susan Lanzoni reveals the little-known roots and reach of
‘empathy,’ particularly its richness as a lens on the arts. An
eye-opener for anyone with an interest in empathy, particularly
those in the behavioral and brain sciences, whose understanding of
the concept will be expanded in astonishing ways.”—Daniel Goleman,
author of Emotional Intelligence
“Highly impressive. . . . This lucid and generously case-based book
gave me a distinctly different understanding of empathy and its
role in scientific explorations, like emotion theory and neuron
research, as well as in everyday social relations.”—Jill Morawski,
Wesleyan University
“This remarkable study of empathy, a crucial but much misunderstood
concept and experience, is encyclopedic in its inclusion of
aesthetic, historical, psychological, and social sources.
Readers will be enriched by Lanzoni’s breadth and clarity.”—Robert
Jay Lifton, author of The Climate Swerve: Reflections on Mind,
Hope, and Survival
“Susan Lanzoni’s dive into the history and use of empathy—in
aesthetics, ethics, politics and now neurobiology—has produced a
book that is both deep and wide. Few concepts have exerted such
power. This is a crucial study, now more than ever.”—Peter Galison,
Harvard University
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