The neuroscience of empathy, compassion, and self-compassion / edited by Larry Stevens, C. Chad Woodruff.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. What is this feeling that I have for myself and for others? contemporary perspectives on empathy, compassion, and self-compassion, and their absence / Larry Stevens, C. Chad Woodruff -- 2. The brain that feels into others : toward a neuroscience of empathy / Vera Flasbeck, Cristina Gonzalez-Liencres, Martin Br✹e -- 3. The brain that longs to care for others : the current neuroscience of compassion / Larry Stevens, Jasmine Benjamin -- 4. The brain that longs to care for itself : the current neuroscience of self-compassion / Larry Stevens, Mark Gauthier-Braham, Benjamin Bush -- 5. Sometimes I get so mad I could... : the neuroscience of cruelty / Taylor N. West, Leah Savery, Robert J. Goodman -- 6. Reflections of others and of self : the mirror neuron system's relationship to empathy / C. Chad Woodruff -- 7. Why does it feel so good to care for others and for myself? neuroendocrinology and prosocial behavior / Melissa Birkett, Joni Sasaki -- 8. Can we change our mind about caring for others? the neuroscience of systematic compassion training / Adam Calderon, Todd Ahern, Thomas Pruzinsky -- 9. Compassion training from an early Buddhist perspective : the neurological concomitants of the Brahmavih塲as / Robert J. Goodman, Paul E. Plonski, Leah Savery -- 10. The language and structure of social cognition : an integrative process of becoming the other / Jaime A. Pineda, Fiza Singh, Kristina Chepak -- 11. Where caring for self and others lives in the brain, and how it can be enhanced and diminished : observations on the neuroscience of empathy, compassion, and self-compassion / C. Chad Woodruff, Larry Stevens.