Empathy as Teachable: Comment

Comments on Clark's original article, "Empathy: A neglected topic in psychological research". The current author states that Clark's biological emphasis detracts unnecessarily from the critically important topics of his article-the teachability of empathy and the need to control human destructiveness by education in empathy. However, in pointing out the neglect of these issues by a behaviorist research establishment in American psychology, he performs a service that should be supported by those of us who value the realm of the subjective, a realm to which empathy is a major access route. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).