ABSTRACT
In this third part of the book, ‘Developing the capacity to care’, we have been exploring the possibility of an epistemology that we believe is particularly conducive to the phenomenon of caring. With reference to the metaphors of ‘the head’ and ‘the heart’, we have considered the kind of knowledge that is needed to understand care, and the ways in which knowledge needs to be communicated in order to evoke and sensitise the capacity for care. This chapter provides one illustration of an approach for the communication of caring-related phenomena that may serve to deepen the empathic feeling capacities of readers and professionals. Building on Chapter 10 we will unfold in greater detail some of the methodological nuances in this approach, as well as its epistemological foundation.
