Lou Agosta

Lou Agosta, Ph.D., specializes in making empathy present in his story telling and listening. He is committed to a gracious and generous listening based on empathy. As an educator, he teaches “The Secret Underground History of Empathy” at the University of Chicago Graham School of Continuing Education. With his PhD in philosophy, Lou trains the clinical psychology students in empathy in the history and systems of psychology in the PsyD program at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University and he is an empathy consultant and therapist in private practice in Chicago. He has earned training certificates in ending Domestic Violence and Partner Abuse Intervention Training from Apna Ghar (Our Home) and the Center for Advancing Domestic Peace. A PhD graduate in philosophy from the University of Chicago, including a dissertation entitled “Empathy and Interpretation,” Lou has published three books on empathy, Empathy in the Context of Philosophy and A Rumor of Empathy: Rewriting Empathy in the Context of Philosophy from Palgrave. Lou’s A Rumor of Empathy: Resistance, Narrative, and Recovery is published by Routledge.