Deep listening: Explorations on the musical edge of therapeutic dialogue.

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 282-293
Author(s):  
Lech Kalita
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Dialogue ◽  
Deep Listening

Deep Listening and Relationality: Cross-cultural Reflections on Practice With Young Women Who Use Violence

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Tamara Blakemore ◽  
Elsie Randall ◽  
Louise Rak ◽  
Felicity Cocuzzoli
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Deep Listening

scholarly journals On the Move: Principal Components of the Functions and Experiences of Mobile Music Listening

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 205920432110328
Author(s):  
Mia Kuch ◽  
Clemens Wöllner
Keyword(s):  
Life Experiences ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Underlying Structure ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Mood Management ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Mobile Music ◽  
Deep Listening

Mobile music listening is widely recognized as an integral part of everyday music use. It is also a rather peculiar experience, since the listeners are surrounded by strangers in public and at the same time engaged in a solitary and private activity. The current study aimed at investigating the functions and experiences of mobile listening with a quantitative online questionnaire, and collected further information about mobile listening situations and listening habits. Among respondents ( n = 203), 89% reported listening to music while being on the move. We found mood-related and cognitive functions to be most prevalent (e.g., enhancing mood, relaxation, prevention of being bored), whereas least important functions relate to social dimensions (e.g., feeling less lonely, feeling less watched). Regarding experiences of mobile music, respondents most commonly adapted their mood to the music and lost touch with the current surroundings. A principal component analysis on ratings of functions and experiences resulted in an underlying structure of five dimensions, representing different levels of involvement: (1) Mood Management comprises functions to satisfy individual needs; (2) Absorption and Aestheticization encompasses deep listening experiences and altered perception of the surroundings; (3) Social Encapsulation and Self-Focus describe the distancing of oneself and changes in attention; (4) Distraction and Passing Time include the prevention of being bored and making time pass faster; and (5) Auditory Background is defined by a non-attentive and rather unaffected music listening. These results highlight the immersiveness of mobile music listening. By creating an individual soundworld, listeners distance themselves from the surroundings aurally and mentally, and modify their attention, perception, moods, and emotions, leading to an improvement of daily life experiences while moving.

Thinking Outside the Circle: Reflections on Theory and Methods for School-Based Garden Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liesa Clague ◽  
Neil Harrison ◽  
Katherine Stewart ◽  
Caroline Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Research Process ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Approach To Learning ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Cultural Integrity ◽  
School Based ◽  
Language Groups ◽  
Considerable Research ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Deep Listening

School-based gardens (SBGs) are contributing to improvements in many areas of education, including nutrition, health, connectedness and engagement of students. While considerable research has been conducted in other parts of the world, research in Australia provides limited understanding of the impact of SBGs. The aim of this paper is to give a reflective viewpoint on the impact of SBGs in Australia from the perspective of an Aboriginal philosophical approach called Dadirri. The philosophy highlights an Australian Aboriginal concept, which exists but has different meanings across Aboriginal language groups. This approach describes the processes of deep and respectful listening. The study uses photovoice as a medium to engage students to become researchers in their own right. Using this methodology, students have control over how they report what is significant to them. The use of photovoice as a data collection method is contextualised within the Aboriginal philosophical approach to deep listening. For the first author, an Aboriginal researcher (Clague), the journey is to find a research process that maintains cultural integrity and resonates with the participants by affirming that a culturally sensitive approach to learning is important.

scholarly journals Client's immersed and distanced speech and therapist's interventions in emotion-focused therapy for depression: an intensive analysis of a case study

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Bela Couto ◽  
Eunice Barbosa ◽  
Sara Silva ◽  
Tiago Bento ◽  
Ana Sofia Teixeira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Studies ◽  
Clinical Change ◽  
Emotion Focused Therapy ◽  
Client Variables ◽  
Observational Measures ◽  
Helping Skills ◽  
System A ◽  
Therapeutic Dialogue ◽  
The Relationship

Previous laboratory studies have explored the importance of participants adopting an immersed or distanced perspective in the analysis of their experiences. These studies concluded that distancing allows analyzing emotions in a healthier way and immersion leads to higher vulnerability. However, in psychotherapy, the relationship between these perspectives and clinical change has been less investigated. The present study aims to contribute to understanding how these variables evolve during psychotherapy and also to explore the therapist’s contributions to this process. This study analyzes a good-outcome case of emotion-focused therapy for depression through two observational measures of psychotherapy process: the measure of immersed and distanced speech – which identifies client’s adoption of an immersed or distanced stance when talking about their problems – and the helping skills system – which identifies therapist’s interventions focused on exploration, insight or action. Results showed a decrease of immersed speech and an increase of distanced speech along the process, with a higher frequency of exploration skills preceding both types of client’s speech. Finally, the evolution of therapist’s and client’s speech showed a reasonable flexibility of therapeutic dialogue throughout the sessions, in particular due to the evolution of client variables (evidencing a higher diversity of behaviors).

scholarly journals Illness narratives of substance users from urban India

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shalini Singh
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Drug Abuse Treatment ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Therapeutic Dialogue ◽  
The Social ◽  
Abuse Treatment

Reading Veena Das’s book 'Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty' was a journey of revelations for me as a health professional. The various dialects of illness that are spoken in the rapidly urbanizing Indian community become coherent, lending a voice to the distinctive sociocultural distress of the men and women who form a part of it. A discussion of the social aspects of illness brings certain questions to mind: Does the medical community fully understand those it tries to help? Is the therapeutic dialogue about the social dimensions of medical problems or vice versa? How do we bridge the mental health gender gap in our societies? To try and find some answers, I present the illness stories of two women who sought treatment at drug abuse treatment clinics in the urban slums of New Delhi. This think piece describes substance use disorder in the context of the cultural processes that have shaped these women, their families, and society.

scholarly journals Talk, Listen, and Understand: The Impact of a Jazz Improvisation Experience on an Amateur Adult Musician’s Mind, Body, and Spirit

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-269
Author(s):  
Brent D. Rowan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Jazz Improvisation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Jazz Style ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Deep Listening

This paper examines the impact of creating music in an improvisational jazz style on an amateur adult musician’s mind, body, and spirit. Learning jazz improvisation skills can help build more empathetic human beings, when the focus of improvisation is on reacting to what you hear in a clear and concise manner. Life skills are developed by focusing on deep listening and communicating with other musicians. Enabling a person to talk to, listen to, and understand those around them builds community and understanding, and lessens the likelihood of conflict. This allows growth and progress to take place in society, making the cultural capital built from a jazz improvisation program invaluable.

Sopravvivenza e ripresa: riflessioni psicoanalitiche

GRUPPI ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 11-30
Author(s):  
Anna Ornstein
Keyword(s):  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Traumatic Memory ◽  
Traumatic Memories ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Therapeutic Dialogue ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Empathic Listening ◽  
Psychological Organization ◽  
The Impact

- In response to a concern that the impact of the Holocaust will not be recognized by psychotherapists treating survivors, several psychoanalysts who were refugees from Nazi Germany devoted a great deal of time and effort to detailing the psychopathological consequences of the Holocaust trauma. Considering the magnitude of the trauma, it was not difficult to find evidence of psychopathology. However, because of their almost exclusive emphasis on psychopathology, most of these researchers failed to recognize the particular manner in which survivors mourned their enormous losses and made an effort to integrate their painful memories into the rest of their personality. This meant the loss of an opportunity to learn about the process of recovery following severe traumatization. The paper also described a hypothesis regarding the psychological mechanisms involved in adaptations to extreme conditions. From the author's point of view, this constituted a link in the survivors' effort to establish psychic continuity between their pre-Holocaust psychological organization and adaptations to a new life. Unlike her colleagues, the author believes that integration of traumatic memories was possible as long as the survivors encountered an empathic listening perspective and their effort to recover was validated. Survivors of trauma have every reason to expect that their stories will evoke fear, confusion, horror and disbelief and that therapists will protect themselves from these affects by resorting to generalizations or praise for the survivor's heroism or special qualities. Such responses however make it impossible for survivors to proceed, and the affects associated with the traumatic memory may never, or only partially, enter the therapeutic dialogue. Once recovered and articulated, the memories are accompanied by grief and anger, indicating that an increase in self-cohesion, a healing of the vertical split, has allowed the previously feared affects to enter consciousness. From the author's viewpoint, feeling anger is an expectable and healthy response in this context. Justified anger is not to be confused with chronic narcissistic rage, which can constitute the nucleus of severe personality disorders.Key words: Holocaust, trauma, traumatic memories, adaptation, integration, empathic listening.Parole chiave: Olocausto, trauma, ricordi traumatici, adattamento, integrazione, ascolto empatico.

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