Group analytic music therapy / Heidi Ahonen-Eerikainen.
| Author/creator | Ahonen-Eerikäinen, Heidi |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Gilsum, N.H. : Barcelona Publishers, ©2007. |
| Description | xx, 315 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Foundation. Family -- Empathy -- Therapy room as the waiting room -- Home from Never-Never Land -- Metaphors -- Group Development -- Group analytic therapy (GAMT). Free-floating discussion -- Three windows -- Levels of the group matrix -- Building GAMT sessions -- Clinical improvisation -- Therapeutic music listening -- Images -- Music: the royal road to the unconscious -- Externalization-Internalization process -- Hall of mirrors -- Practical issues -- Musical images and group matrix -- 'I am able to communicate through music': level of social interaction -- 'This music reminds me of my mother': level of transference -- 'This music sounds as my feelings feel': level of projection -- 'This music touches all of us': level of collective unconscious -- Images and interpretation -- 'Too scared to be visible': Mary: a case study of a voiceless woman who found her identity in a hall of mirrors. Do I dare to become visible? -- Becoming visible -- Making more noise -- Visible and not scared -- Exploring Mary's dreams and images -- Closure. |
| Abstract | This book introduces Group Analytic Music Therapy (GAMT), different levels of the group, and the different characteristics of musical images. It illustrates that music is the royal road to the unconscious just like dreams. Images created during group analytic music therapy have similar clinical value to dreams. These images, just like dreams, communicate through feelings and body sensations. Their language is metaphorical, emotional and insightful. They speak from and to our hearts. In GAMT, the role of the music therapist is to find ways of making the best therapeutic use of clients feelings, thoughts, bodily sensations, dreams, and images created through music. Images created during improvisation or therapeutic music listening can be seen as part of unconscious intersubjective and interpersonal processes within the group. In GAMT, when someone shares their musical image, other clients are encouraged to provide their own associations too. These images are their own, but at the same time part of the groups collective unconsciousness. The book is divided into three parts: Part One sets the philosophical foundation of GAMT. The purpose is to provide a group psychotherapeutic context that will be explored in more detail in Parts Two and Three. Part Two presents the theory and method of GAMT and different characteristics of musical images. It discusses how dreams and images created during group analytic music therapy can be a unique source of clinical data. Part Three illustrates theory through a clinical case study of Mary, an invisible woman who turned visible and found her voice during GAMT. The book includes both theoretical and clinical sections and several case study examples and in-depth analyses. Away from being a first of its kind in music therapy field, this book expands group music therapy theories and proposes a new way of defining clinical group music therapy practice. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-313). |
| ISBN | 9781891278501 |
| ISBN | 1891278509 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML3920 .A3 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |