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P20 Empathy means realizing that there are no separate traumas or boundaries. Trauma bleeds. Grief becomes a seizure. In response to this, empathy demands another type of permeability. The word "empathy" comes from the Greek words empatheia—em (into) and pathos (emotion). Empathy is permeability and a kind of journey. It suggests that you enter into another person's suffering. Leslie Jamison's second book, *The Empathy Exercise*, is her first standalone work introduced in Korea for the first
Leslie Jamison: Empathy practice
*Empathy Practice* is a confessional essay collection that candidly captures stories that have been dismissed countless times—stories that may never have been properly told—through personal experiences, confessions, and a silent gaze into the diverse lives of the surrounding world. Compiling 11 essays by Leslie Jamison published across various media over the course of about eight years, the book fully captures the events the author personally experienced or witnessed, directly or indirectly, including her professional experience as a medical actor, her experience with abortion, her coverage of Morgellons disease, her time living in Nicaragua, travels to Mexico and Bolivia, LA gang tours, her coverage of ultramarathons, visits to incarcerated prisoners, stories of boys unjustly imprisoned, and her struggles with anorexia and self-harm. By visiting and exploring the truly diverse strata of suffering—including poverty, violence, alienation, disease, and trauma—the author unfolds a narrative about pain with a keen eye. Primarily addressing personal sorrow, the suffering of outsiders, minorities, and women, she embraces them with a thoughtful and powerful voice, posing fundamental questions about how we understand others. What is empathy? How can we share in the suffering of others? Such a question and reflection permeate every layer of this essay.
Korean title: 공감 연습
Korean author: 레슬리 제이미슨
Korean publisher: 문학과지성사
ISBN-13: 9788932035093
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P20 Empathy means realizing that there are no separate traumas or boundaries. Trauma bleeds. Grief becomes a seizure. In response to this, empathy demands another type of permeability. The word "empathy" comes from the Greek words empatheia—em (into) and pathos (emotion). Empathy is permeability and a kind of journey. It suggests that you enter into another person's suffering. Leslie Jamison's second book, *The Empathy Exercise*, is her first standalone work introduced in Korea for the first
