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A review by bkish
The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir by Sherry Turkle
4.0
I think of this book in two separate parts that could b much better connected.
Prof Sherry Turkle (MIT) wrote a memoir and it Includes her known views of technology social media and their effects on people. Some of the people who use it and also build it living most of their lives facing screens areher psych patients in her private practice.
Thenthere is her telling of her life that began in Brooklyn in two neighborhoods her mother and brother and her grandparents and aunt in another neighborhood. Then her mother remarries and she has another brother and a sister. The family is Jewish and low income. From earlySherry is a brilliant child and that never changes. There are family problems w her own father and her mother who left him wants him forgotten.
For me all of the early years were so exciting asеКi too am jewish from brooklyn so so many places are familiar to me.
The story of her life changes yet its still Sherry as she enters Radcliff on scholarship and travels to Paris for her thesis and to experience it. In time she is intern or a lecturer at MIT. She in time has PhD from Harvard in social sciences and another subject. Also she begins training as psychologist and enters her own psychoanalysis
She is a thinker not a social relationshipеКperson. Thats how she succeedsin those years in a world scene where men succeed. How she got her tenure at MIT is quite a story of how her mind works.
I couldnt help but admire herin her profession her brilliant mind and having a daughter now an adult. Also i found her lacking in connections to people and that was obvious with her mother,
Its rather unusual that someone that cerebral would make name for herself declaring the lackеКof human emotions including empathy is caused by people overusing their digital devices
Judy g
Prof Sherry Turkle (MIT) wrote a memoir and it Includes her known views of technology social media and their effects on people. Some of the people who use it and also build it living most of their lives facing screens areher psych patients in her private practice.
Thenthere is her telling of her life that began in Brooklyn in two neighborhoods her mother and brother and her grandparents and aunt in another neighborhood. Then her mother remarries and she has another brother and a sister. The family is Jewish and low income. From earlySherry is a brilliant child and that never changes. There are family problems w her own father and her mother who left him wants him forgotten.
For me all of the early years were so exciting asеКi too am jewish from brooklyn so so many places are familiar to me.
The story of her life changes yet its still Sherry as she enters Radcliff on scholarship and travels to Paris for her thesis and to experience it. In time she is intern or a lecturer at MIT. She in time has PhD from Harvard in social sciences and another subject. Also she begins training as psychologist and enters her own psychoanalysis
She is a thinker not a social relationshipеКperson. Thats how she succeedsin those years in a world scene where men succeed. How she got her tenure at MIT is quite a story of how her mind works.
I couldnt help but admire herin her profession her brilliant mind and having a daughter now an adult. Also i found her lacking in connections to people and that was obvious with her mother,
Its rather unusual that someone that cerebral would make name for herself declaring the lackеКof human emotions including empathy is caused by people overusing their digital devices
Judy g