By drawing extensively from current literature on music and developmental psychology, music therapy, psychotherapy and music theory, this book encourages music therapists not to compromise the musical process at the heart of their practice, but to use these with authority - the authority that this book seeks to provide.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface, Colwyn Trevarthen. Introduction. 1. Creating Meaning. PART ONE 2. Music, Meaning and Music Therapy: A View from Music Theory. 3. Music Therapy and Universals: Between Culture and Compromise. 4. With Rigour and Imagination: Music Therapy and Music Psychology. 5. Perception, Cognition, Improvisation: A View from Music Therapy. 6. In Concert: Improvisation, Cognition and Music Therapy. PART TWO 7. Meaning in Relationship: The Music Between. 8. Songs Without Words: Music in Communication. 9. Music in Dynamic Form and Dynamic Form in Music. PART THREE 10. Meaning in Relationship: A View from Psychodynamic Theory. 11. Playing with Winnicott's Reality. 12. Psychodynamic Meaning in Music Therapy. 13. Why Do We Become Therapists?
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`...throughout her book, the author presents interesting ideas which should be stimulating and useful to music therapists.'
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