Music as therapy : a dialogical perspective / Rudy Garred.

Author/creator Garred, Rudy
Format Book
Publication InfoGilsum, NH : Barcelona Publishers, ©2006.
Descriptionxvi, 344 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Music therapy--Methods.
Music--Psychological aspects.
Music therapy.
Music, Influence of.

Contents Frame and picture. The term "music therapy" ; The need for verbal processing ; Development of theory ; Differences of assumptions -- Dialogue. Origin and history of the concept ; Main tenets ; Commentary ; Criticisms ; A way of viewing -- The music therapy triad. Encounter with music ; The musical work ; Music as a means ; The music therapy triangle ; Different spheres of relation -- Relational knowing. The early interaction analogy ; Implicit relational knowing ; Application to examples from the literature ; An example from my own practice: Lisa -- Relating to music. Coming to know ; Change in the sense of self ; Relating the interpersonal and the musical ; Substituting words with music -- Roles of music, ways of talking. Comparing models ideal-typically ; Projection and expression ; Verbalization requirement ; Ways of talking -- A formed image in sound. Buber's view on art ; A definition of music ; A phenomenological orientation ; Music as an activity ; Beyond aesthetics -- Outlining a rationale. Philosophical anthropology ; The therapist's responsibility ; Working and playing ; Enhancing resources ; Musical change and personal change -- Implications for practice. A resource-oriented approach ; Therapeutic technique ; Expressive resources ; The potentials of the moment ; The aspect of culture -- Community-oriented therapy. Expansions of the therapeutic setting ; Performance-based approach ; Retaining a focus on the person ; Therapeutic contract -- The receptive mode. Traveler, guide, music, and imagery ; Relating directly to music ; Therapeutic process ; An example from a session of my own ; An option opened for ; Processing the experience -- Remembering and forgetting. A theory for music as music in therapy ; The basis for further development ; Theory for remembering.
Abstract There has for some years now been a debate within the field of music therapy on the issue of music-centered therapy. This book relates to this discussion and presents a contribution. The thesis that is put forward is that a dialogical perspective may serve to frame such therapy. Or, rather, for music as therapy, which is the term that is used here. Some might want to claim that there is no such thing as music as therapy, that the only real therapy there is, is some already established mode of therapy in which music plays a subordinate part, music in therapy. In this book, the attempt is to show a different picture, one which includes also the possibility of music as therapy, that is to say, therapy based on qualities of the medium itself. A particularly much-debated issue has been whether verbal processing is necessary for actual therapy to take place. This book presents and discusses some of the crucial issues involved, and develops a theory to bring out potentials of an experiential, transformative music therapy, in which verbal processing, talking cure style, is not necessarily incorporated. The models related to, and exemplified through vignettes from practice, are mostly improvisational, but the perspective drawn is applied to some extent also to other modalities, such as community-oriented practices and receptive, listening-based music therapy.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 324-341) and index.
ISBN9781891278402 (pbk.)
ISBN1891278401 (pbk.)

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Music Music Stacks ML3920 .G187 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold