Overview
- Offers an expansive framework for understanding empathy in music therapy
- Provides critical, accessible and actionable ideas for music therapy’s advance as a socially just practice
- Discusses the use of empathy in music therapy practice and research
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Insightful Empathy
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An Empathising Assemblage
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Relational Empathy
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Keywords
- Music Therapy
- Empathy
- Relational sociology
- Relational Empathy
- Translational Empathy
- Non-verbal Cross-cultural Communication
- Inclusive Cultural Empathy
- Ethics and Music Therapy
- decolonizing music therapy
- ethico-onto-epistemologies
- relational ontology
- Music Psychology
- psychoanalysis
- neuropsychology
- social neuroscience
- social development studies
- epistemic violence
- person-centred psychology
- community psychology
About this book
Many 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 therapyapproaches 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.
Reviews
“The empathy music therapists demonstrate when they listen, music together, and share time with people is finally explained in this comprehensive text. Dos Santos offers pathways to illuminate the beliefs and assumptions we bring to practice and leads us to better informed decisions about how we might encounter others. Whether through the more traditional intention of sharing and understanding another’s emotions, or more critical, co-constructed positions, this text significantly expands what we might consider.” (Prof Katrina McFerran, University of Melbourne, Australia)
“It’s rare for an author to shift our foundational understanding of a concept as commonly evoked as empathy—which is surprisingly elusive and requires multiple pathways. Empathy Pathways supports potential shifts in personal reflection, scholarly discourse, and clinical practice. This book helps influence ideas of being, relating, and doing. I will be returning to it often to support my passions of preparing students and reimagining the world around me through a holistic and critical lens.” (Prof Hakeem Leonard, Shenandoah University, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Andeline dos Santos is a registered music therapist, senior lecturer and research coordinator for the School of the Arts at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Empathy Pathways
Book Subtitle: A View from Music Therapy
Authors: Andeline dos Santos
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08556-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08555-0Published: 08 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08558-1Published: 09 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-08556-7Published: 07 September 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 528
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Epistemology, Neurosciences