Empathy pathways: a view from music therapy

Many descriptions of empathy emphasise sharing in and understanding another persons emotions. Can we really see "inside" another separate individual, though? What if were already relationally interconnected? How can we best grapple with these questions in the field of music therapy? In response, this book offers four empathy pathways with examples drawn from clinical and community contexts. Andeline dos Santos is a registered music therapist and senior lecturer at the School of the Arts, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Chapter 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 Others 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.