Analytical Music Therapy

Johannes Eschen

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Year: 2002
• Print ISBN: 9781843100584
• eBook ISBN: 9781846423345
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Music
• Index: Psychology

This book brings together the professional experiences of eminent analytical music therapists from Europe and the USA. The book examines the origins and theory of AMT (including a contribution on the subject from Mary Priestley), before exploring its uses in various contexts. Chapters cover AMT in counselling and rehabilitation, with adults and children and with nonverbal clients. A concluding section discusses aspects of the training of music therapy students.

Written by experienced and highly regarded analytic music therapists, and edited by Johannes Th. Eschen, one of the first ever AMT students, this book will be of interest to practitioners in many branches of music therapy and related disciplines.

Table of contents

• Analytical Music Therapy
• Contents
• Preface
• Part 1
• 1. Analytical Music Therapy – Origin and Development
• 2. Analytical Music Therapy – Introduction
• 3. Theoretical Bases of Analytical Music Therapy
• Part 2
• 4. Some Considerations on the Treatment Techniques of Psychoanalytically-Established Music Therapy
• 5. Analytical Music Therapy with Adults in Mental Health and in Counselling Work
• 6. The Sound of Silence – The Use of Analytical Music Therapy Techniques with a Nonverbal Client
• 7. The Psychodynamic Function of Music in Analytical Music Therapy with Children
• 8. The Role of Music in Analytical Music Therapy – Music as a Carrier of Stories
• 9. Improvisation as a Musical Healing Tool and Life Approach – Theoretical and Clinical Applications of Analytical Music Therapy Improvisation in a Short-and Long-term Rehabilitation Facility
• Part 3
• 10. Supervision of Music Therapy Students in a Music Therapy Graduate Training Programme
• 11. Self-Experience for Music Therapy Students – Experiential Training in Music Therapy as a Methodology – A Mandatory Part of the Music Therapy Programme at Aalborg University
• 12. Psychodynamic Movement – A Basic Training Methodology for Music Therapists
• The Contributors
• Subject index
• Name index