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Mira Kirshenbaum
"The best book I've seen on how we can stop sabotaging our need for balance. Compulsive achievers will find here everything they need to gain the sense of satisfaction that's eluded them. This book is a must-read for men and women struggling with the mystery of why they're not happy. This is a most wise, helpful, and important book, and it's wonderfully readable."
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P.M. Forni, Professor at Johns Hopkins University and author of Choosing Civility
"A much-welcome, reader-friendly, utterly unpretentious call to sanity. With clarity and disarming simplicity, Dr. Arthur Ciaramicoli exposes the futility and indeed the harm of our collective compulsive ride on the achievement treadmill. . . . Performance Addiction is a crash course in essential wisdom for today. Read it and give it to anyone about whose mental health and happiness you deeply care."
Richard Kadison, M.D. Chief, Mental Health Services, Harvard University Health Services
"Integrating theory with compelling stories from his clinical practice, Dr. Ciaramicoli provides concrete, practical methods to address the growing problem of performance addiction."
Dr. Charles Foster, author of Feel Better Fast
"Every perfectionistic, hypervigilant person wondering why peace of mind is so elusive should read this book. Dr. Ciaramicoli totally nails the issue of performance addiction and offers all the help you need. A life-changing book."
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Publisher's Weekly, March 6, 2000
In an engaging work that is part guidebook and part heartfelt meditation, Ciaramicoli contends that it is empathy - not sympathy, not drugs - that holds the key to mental health. Inspired, in part, by his brother's suicide 26 years ago (which he believes was caused partly by a failure of empathy), Ciaramicoli vigorously examines empathy's place in an astonishing array of everyday situations -- in sexual intimacy and friendly banter, in the natural world and the arena of sales and advertising - as a force of evil and a force of good. In the end, Ciaramicoli's meticulous exploration of the "invisible connections" of true empathy illuminates how the reader can use this long-misunderstood social skill to live a more safe and fulfilled life.
Library Journal, March 15, 2000
" . . . quite a thoughtful and rather philosophical treatise on how empathy can be used to deepen relationships."
Edward Hallowell, M.D., author of Connect and Driven to Distraction
"The Power of Empathy explores the remarkable power of one human being to know and help another human being simply through understanding. One of the most useful, yet misunderstood faculties, empathy can help and heal us all. This excellent book shows you how."
Mira Kirshenbaum, author of The Gift of a Year and Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay
"This is a wonderful book. Once I began reading it I couldn't put it down until I finished. Dr. Ciaramicoli is a very wise man who comes across as a real human being. I can't imagine a simpler, more beautiful, or more powerful guide to relationships and to navigating the complex world of human interaction. Every reader should find this book deeply meaningful."
Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Reinventing Medicine and Healing Words
"This is a terrific book. Empathy is an underrated factor in our lives, and Dr. Ciaramicoli reveals its power and complexity with penetrating insight. The Power of Empathy is lucid, wise, and compassionate. Highly recommended!"
Perle Besserman, author of Owning It: Zen and the Art of Facing Life
"The Power of Empathy truly makes me see that empathy is one of the blessings of being human. The theme is threaded beautifully throughout, like shot silk. A flawless blend of the intuitive and the scientific, of paradise lost and rediscovered right here in the middle of our muddled world."
Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles and Prescriptions for Loving
"The Power of Empathy can help you understand the nature of human behavior and assist you in developing a second nature if you desire to."
Rabbi David Wolpe, Rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles and author of Making Loss Matter
"The Power of Empathy is a clear, fluent, and helpful guide to some of the most confounding questions of life. Building from both personal experience and professional expertise, the authors offer us a promising path through the thickets of relationships, and the mysteries of our ow souls."
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