Music Therapy and Neurological Rehabilitation

Performing Health

David Aldridge

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Year: 2005
• ISBN:
  9781846421389
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychotherapy
• Index: Psychology

The central tenet of this innovative collection is that identity can be regarded as a performance, achieved through and in dialogue with others. The authors show that where neuro-degenerative disease restricts movement, communication and thought processes and impairs the sense of self, music therapy is an effective intervention in neurological rehabilitation, successfully restoring the performance of identity within which clients can recognise themselves. It can also aid rehabilitation of clients affected by dementia, traumatic brain injury, and multiple sclerosis, among other neuro-generative diseases.

Music Therapy and Neurological Rehabilitation is an authoritative and comprehensive text that will be of interest to practising music therapists, students and academics in the field.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Music Therapy and Neurological Rehabilitation: Performing Health
• Contents
• 1 Looking for the Why, How and When
• 2 Gesture and Dialogue: Music Therapy as Praxis Aesthetic and Embodied Hermeneutic
• 3 Dialogic-Degenerative Diseases and Health as a Performed Aesthetic
• 4 An Overview of Therapeutic Initiatives when Working with People Suffering from Dementia
• 5 Music Therapy in Neurorehabilitation After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Literature Review
• 6 Encounter with the Conscious Being of People in Persistent Vegetative State
• 7 ‘Swing in My Brain’: Active Music Therapy for People with Multiple Sclerosis
• 8 Music Therapy for People with Chronic Aphasia: A Controlled Study
• 9 Traditional Oriental Music Therapy in Neurological Rehabilitation
• 10 Art Therapies in the Primary Treatment of Paraplegic Patients: A Qualitative Study
• 11 Coda
• REFERENCES
• THE CONTRIBUTORS
• SUBJECT INDEX
• AUTHOR INDEX