Description
Book SynopsisMany descriptions of empathy revolve around sharing in and understanding another person’s emotions. One separate person gains access to the emotional world of another. An entire worldview holds up this idea. It is individualistic and affirms the possibility of access to other people’s “inner world.” Can we really see inside another, though? And are we discrete, separate selves? How can we best grapple with these questions in the field of music therapy? In response, this book offers four empathy pathways. Two are situated in a constituent approach (that prioritises discrete individuals who then enter into relationships with one another) and two are located in relational approaches (that acknowledge the foundational reality of relationships themselves). By understanding empathy more fully, music therapists, teachers and researchers can engage in ways that are congruent with diverse worldviews and ways of being. Examples used in the book are from active and receptive music therapy approaches as well as from community and clinical contexts, so as to provide clear links to practice.
This book will be a valuable resource for academics and postgraduate students within music therapy and allied fields including art therapy, drama therapy, dance/movement therapy, psychology, counselling, occupational therapy and social development studies.
Table of ContentsChapter 1: An Introduction to Empathies
Part One: Insightful Empathy
Chapter 2: A Stance of Receptivity
Chapter 3: Awareness Through Multifaceted Perceiving
Chapter 4: Sharing Emotions
Chapter 5: Understanding Emotions
Chapter 6: Responding with Action
Part Two: Translational Empathy
Chapter 7: A Stance of Honouring Opacity
Chapter 8: Awareness of Translational Processes
Chapter 9: Responsively Being With Each Other’s Emotional Expressions
Chapter 10: Negotiating Meanings of Emotions
Chapter 11: Responding Through Accompaniment
Part Three: An Empathising Assemblage
Chapter 12: A Stance of Acknowledging That We Are Always Already Entangled
Chapter 13: Affective Attunement
Chapter 14: Awareness Through Mapping Relationships
Chapter 15: Enhancing Response-ability
Part Four: Relational Empathy
Chapter 16: A Stance of Recognising That We Are Selfing Through Relationships
Chapter 17: Awareness of Emotions as Co-Storying
Chapter 18: Emotions and Meanings in Layers of Co-Storying
Chapter 19: Responding By Affirming and Changing Emotion Stories
Chapter 20: Conclusion
