Empathic Teaching: Education For Life
An extraordinarily absorbing and important piece of work. Jeffrey Berman is elaborating a vision of what it means to be an English professor today that is at once radically original and eminently practical. His previous books on personal writing have garnered widespread notice, and I am confident that this most recent breakthrough will attract even more readers and raise the cumulative impact of his oeuvre to a higher power.(Peter L. Rudnytsky, editor of American Imago and author of Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck)Readers must decide whether or not they feel qualified or are willing to invite... trauma into their classrooms. Thanks to Berman's extensive research and student writing examples that decision should not be difficult to make.(The CEA Forum)Empathic Teaching appears to me to be an instant classic. The combination of Professor Berman's knowledge of literature and psychological theory, coupled with his extraordinary appreciation of the culture and inner worlds of his students is positively remarkable. In point of fact, this book is far superior to many of the texts Berman himself cites in his extensive research. If his students are lucky to have him, we, his readers, in and out of the world of education, are as well. I am, simply put, in awe of this volume!(Thomas J. Cottle, author of A Sense of Self: The Work of Affirmation)[A] wonderful and important book. It captures the intensity and singularity of what it means to teach and brings to life the struggles and life concerns of today's college students. To teach is to show: Berman's book shows the essence of a teacher who is profoundly engaged with the minds and emotional issues of his students.(Kay Redfield Jamison, author of An Unquiet Mind and Exuberance: The Passion for Life)