If I understood you, would I have this look on my face? : my adventures in the art and science of relating and communicating

Author

Alan Alda

Call Number

• 153.6 A357 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Random House, [2017]

Physical Description

xviii, 213 pages ; 25 cm

Contents

• Relating: it's the cake
• Theater games with engineers
• The heart and head of communication
• The mirror exercise
• Observation games
• Making it clear and vivid
• Reading minds: Helen Riess and Matt Lerner
• Teams
• Total listening starts with where they are
• Listening, from the boardroom to the bedroom
• Training doctors to have more empathy
• My life as a lab rat
• Working alone on building empathy
• Dark empathy
• Reading the mind of the reader
• Teaching and the flame challenge
• Emotion makes it memorable
• Story and the brain
• Commonality
• Jargon and the curse of knowledge
• The improvisation of daily life.