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The Empathy Exams: Essays

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning wi

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“This is how writers fall in love: they feel complicated together and then they talk about it.”

— Leslie Jamison, amazon.com

Tagged: Writers, writers in love, Love, romance

“I’ve always treasured empathy as the particular privilege of the invisible, the observers who are shy precisely because they sense so much—because it is overwhelming to say even a single word when you’re sensitive to every last flicker of nuance in the room.”

— Leslie Jamison, amazon.com

Tagged: Empathy, Shy, Sensibility, Feelings, Sensitivity

“No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.”

— Leslie Jamison, amazon.com

Tagged: Trauma

“Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.”

— Leslie Jamison, amazon.com

Tagged: Empathy, Listening

“My job title is medical actor, which means I play sick.”

— Leslie Jamison, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books