Empathy Embodied: An Integrative Literature Review of the History, Philosophy, Psychology, Clinical Science, Neuroscience, and Phenomenology of the Construct of Empathy with Clinical Recommendations (2010)
Salvat, Andrei (Author)
California Institute of Integral Studies
McGovern, Katie
Edition Details: Advisor: McGovern, Katie.
Physical Details: 534 pp.
Language: English
The notion of "empathy" has had a history marked by ambiguity, discrepancy, and controversy among philosophers, psychologists, and behavioral, social, and medical scholars. Despite the conceptual ambiguity, empathy is among the most frequently mentioned humanistic dimensions of patient care and is one of the main requirements for successful therapeutic outcomes regardless of theoretical orientation The relevant psychotherapeutic literature consists primarily of studies examining the cognitive, affective and communicative aspects of empathy. Until recently, there was clearly a deficiency of the embodied and/or physiological correlates of empathy. The early theorists of the construct proposed that the mechanism responsible for the shared feelings of empathy was afferent feedback from the body's conscious or unconscious motoric imitations of the other's posture, gesture, and expression. In the last couple of decades there has been a renewed interest in the physiological aspects of empathy, emerging mainly from the fields of cognitive science and neuropsychology. These perspectives are somewhat reductionistic in that they consider the brain to be the substrate of the psyche and see the empathic process as a necessary processing capacity or neural network. This ignores the somatic, lived bodily experience of the empathizer. In reconceptualizing the empathic process that includes the cognitive, affective, communicatory, physiological, and somatic dimensions of empathy--which will have implications for both practice and training--the present study will utilize an integrative literature review. This type of review not only facilitates an integration of research from diverse fields, but also addresses the need for a review, critique, and reconceptualization of the expanding, diverse knowledge base related to the concept of empathy. The review will pay particular attention to two issues, thus circumscribing the literature that is relevant: the inherent dualism of mind and body in contemporary science and psychology; and the embodied aspects of the empathic process.
...MoreDescription Cited in Dissertation Abstracts International-B 71/07, Jan 2011. Proquest Document ID: 604991385.
Similar Citations
Article
Young, Allan;
(2012)
The Social Brain and the Myth of Empathy
(/isis/citation/CBB001251568/)
Article
Barnett, S. A.;
(2003)
The Pale Cast of Thought: An Essay Review of Thinks… by David Lodge
(/isis/citation/CBB000551078/)
Article
Stadler, Max;
(2014)
Neurohistory Is Bunk?: The Not-So-Deep History of the Postclassical Mind
(/isis/citation/CBB001321209/)
Article
Pelaprat, Etienne;
Hartouni, Valerie;
(2011)
The Neural Subject in Popular Culture and the End of Life
(/isis/citation/CBB001252271/)
Article
Yulia Frumer;
(2018)
Cognition and Emotions in Japanese Humanoid Robotics
(/isis/citation/CBB191691606/)
Book
Marek Tamm;
Peter Burke;
(2018)
Debating New Approaches to History
(/isis/citation/CBB400076497/)
Book
Uttal, William R.;
(2011)
Mind and Brain: A Critical Appraisal of Cognitive Neuroscience
(/isis/citation/CBB001214622/)
Book
Paolo Pecere;
(2023)
La natura della mente. Da Cartesio alle scienze cognitive
(/isis/citation/CBB751480142/)
Article
Feest, Uljana;
(2010)
Concepts as Tools in the Experimental Generation of Knowledge in Cognitive Neuropsychology
(/isis/citation/CBB001023802/)
Book
Eugenio Lecaldano;
(2021)
Identità personale: Storia e critica di un’idea
(/isis/citation/CBB940829141/)
Book
Jacobson, Anne Jaap;
Maibom, Heidi Lene;
Bluhm, Robyn;
(2012)
Neurofeminism: Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cognitive Science
(/isis/citation/CBB593610163/)
Book
Sherry Turkle;
(2021)
The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
(/isis/citation/CBB987906768/)
Article
Sio, Fabio De;
(2011)
Leviathan and the Soft Animal: Medical Humanism and the Invertebrate Models for Higher Nervous Functions, 1950s--90s
(/isis/citation/CBB001230171/)
Article
Karen Yan;
Jonathon Hricko;
(2017)
Brain networks, structural realism, and local approaches to the scientific realism debate
(/isis/citation/CBB179415275/)
Article
Grush, Rick;
(2003)
In Defense of Some “Cartesian” Assumptions Concerning the Brain and Its Operation
(/isis/citation/CBB000340564/)
Article
Michelle Gibbons;
(2019)
Attaining landmark status: Rumelhart and McClelland's PDP Volumes and the Connectionist Paradigm
(/isis/citation/CBB434399881/)
Book
Richardson, Alan;
(2001)
British Romanticism and the science of the mind
(/isis/citation/CBB000100059/)
Book
Lori A. Schmied;
(2019)
The Advance of Neuroscience: Twelve Topics from the Victorian Era to Today
(/isis/citation/CBB066337856/)
Book
Antonella Tramacere;
(2023)
Introduzione alle psicologie evoluzionistiche: L'origine della mente umana tra scienza e filosofia
(/isis/citation/CBB137148303/)
Article
Enrico Petracca;
(2022)
Simulating Marx: Herbert A. Simon's cognitivist approach to dialectical materialism
(/isis/citation/CBB036748823/)
Spontaneous Generations
Science in Context
Medical History
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Be the first to comment!