Music Therapy in Health and Education

Margaret Heal is a Senior Music Therapist for the Learning Disabilities Care Group, Forest Healthcare Trust, and a Clinical Supervisor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Tony Wigram was Professor and Head of PhD Studies in Music Therapy at the University of Aalborg, Denmark, Honorary Research Fellow in the Faculty of Music at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Reader in Music Therapy at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. He was Associate Editor of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, and a former President of both the European Music Therapy Confederation and the World Federation of Music Therapy. He was also Head Music Therapist at the Harper Children's Service in Hertfordshire, UK, and Research Advisor to Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust.

• Foreword, Anthony Storr. Introduction, Margaret Heal and Tony Wigram. PART I: CLINICAL WORK. CHILDREN. 1. The creative processes are universal, Clive Robbins. 2. A case of severe infantile regression treated by music therapy and explored in group supervision, Pier Luigi Postacchini, Massimo Borghese, Brigitte Flucher, Loredana Guida, Marzia Mancini, Piera Nocentini, Laura Rubin, Sergio Santoni. ADOLESCENTS. 3. Containment in music therapy, Jos De Backer. 4. Control and creativity…music therapy with adolescents in secure care, Claire Flower. FAMILIES 5. Music therapy with families, Amelia Oldfield ADULTS 6. Music therapy in the psychodynamic treatment of schizophrenia Hanne Metter Kortegaard. 7. Description of an experience in music therapy carried out at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Genoa, G Berruti, G Del Puente, R Gatti, G Manarolo, C Vecchiato. 8. Levels of interaction in group improvisation, Esme Towse and Claire Flower. 9. Music therapy a methodological approach in the mental health field. Gianluigi di Franco. 10. Opening doors…the effects of music therapy with people who have severe learning difficulties and display challenging behaviour, Fiona Ritchie. 11. Individual therapy with a man who has an eating disorder, Ann Sloboda. 12. Music - a mega vitamin for the brain, Denise Erdonmez. 13. Music therapy's role in the diagnosis of psychogeriatric patients, J Raijmaekers. PART II: RESEARCH. LITERATURE REVIEW. 14. Music therapy research to meet the demands of health and education services: research and literature analysis, Tony Wigram 15. Applications of music in medicine, C D Maranto. APPLIED RESEARCH 16. Spontaneous ritualised play in music therapy: a technical and theoretical analysis, A Agrotou. 17. Cultural aspects of music therapy, R Bright. 18. Developing interaction through shared musical experiences: A strategy to enhance and validate the descriptive approach, J Hooper. 19. Autistic children: the influence of maternal involvement in therapy, P Muller and A Warwick. 20. Research in practice in the music therapy treatment of a client with symptoms of anorexia nervosa, H Smeijsters and J van den Hurk. 21. The guitar doesn't know this song: an investigation of parallel development in speech/language and music therapy, J Sutton. 22. Observational techniques in the analysis of both active and receptive music therapy with disturbed and self-injurious clients, Tony Wigram. List of Contributors.

The selected papers give a graphic description of the overall nature of the work of music therapists, written in a fluid and easy to read manner. For the occupational therapist, whether interested in music therapy or not, there is much to gain from the increased awareness of the clinical and research work of another therapeutic discipline. The majority of the papers are based on case studies and well illustrate the common ground of the making of the therapeutic alliance... this book gives a good overview to music therapy practice and is presented in an interesting and lively fashion.