Clinical Applications Of Music Therapy In Psychiatry

Table of Contents:
Specific aspects of the music therapy relationship with psychiatric patients, Jos De Backer and Jan Van Camp; music therapy as holding and re-organizing work with schizophrenic and psychotic patients, Inge Nygaars Pedersen; music therapy with psychiatric in-patients - a case study with a young schizophrenic man, Bent Jensen; the meaning of music - from the client's perspective, Brynjulf Stige; direction and use of the musical transference relationship, Eliane Streeter; psychoanalytically informed music therapy in psychiatry, Susanne Metzner; investigating the value of music therapy in psychiatry -developing research tools arising from clinical perspectives, Helen Odell-Miller; vocal improvization in analytically-oriented music therapy with adults, Diane Austin; relaxing through pain and anxiety at the extremities of life - applications of music therapy in childbirth and older adulthood, Suzanne Hanser; working through loss and mourning in music therapy, Chava Sekeles; the music which underpins pivotal moments in guided imagery and music, Denise Erdonmez-Grocke; analysis of musical improvizations to understand and work with elements of resistance in a client with anorexia nervosa, Britta Vinkler Frederiksen; music therapy and the meaning of affect regulations for psychomatic patients, Mechtild Langenberg; the sound of music in the dimming, anguished world of Alzheimer's disease, May Gaertner; reflections on music in music therapy, Jan Van Camp.