Case Examples of the Use of Songs in Psychotherapy
- Author: Bruscia, Kenneth E.
- E-ISBN: 9781937440367
A compilation of 16 case examples illustrating how leading music therapists have used song experiences as an integral part of the psychotherapy process. Included are examples of how song discussion, song parody, song-writing, and song improvisation have been used with different clientele. Available only as an e-book (E-ISBN: 9781937440367, 251 pages, $24).
Table of Contents
PREFACE
Kenneth E. Bruscia
INTRODUCTION
Songs in Psychotherapy
Kenneth E. Bruscia
CASE ONE
When The Psyche Sings: Transference And Countertransference In Improvised Singing With Individual Adults
Diane S. Austin
CASE TWO
Composition, Improvisation and Poetry in the Psychiatric Treatment of a Forensic Patient
Phyllis Boone
CASE THREE
Individual Music Therapy for an Adolescent with Borderline Personality Disorder: An Object Relations Approach
Janice M. Dvorkin
CASE FOUR
Original Song Drawings in the Treatment of a Developmentally Disabled, Autistic Young Man
Rosemary G. Fischer
CASE FIVE
Improvised Songs Stories in the Treatment of a Thirteen-Year-Old Sexually Abused Girl from the Xhosa Tribe in South Africa
Helen Henderson
CASE SIX
Songs of Faith in End of Life Care
Russell Hilliard
Jenna Justice
CASE SEVEN
Singing in the Recovery Model with a Chronic Mentally Ill Offender
Vaughn Kaser
CASE EIGHT
Our Path to Peace: Songwriting-Based Brief Music Therapy with Bereaved Adolescents
Robert E. Krout
CASE NINE
Singing My Way through the Cancer, the Darkness, and the Fear
Maria Logis
Alan Turry
CASE TEN
Do I Dare Imagine? A Microanalysis of Improvised Singing
Alan Turry
CASE ELEVEN
Music Therapy at the End of a Life
Jenny A. Martin
CASE TWELVE
Just Don't Do It: A Group's Micro Journey into Music and Life
Mercedes Pavlicevic
CASE THIRTEEN
The Healing Function of Improvised Songs in Music Therapy with a Child Survivor of Early Trauma and Sexual Abuse
Jacqueline Z. Robarts
CASE FOURTEEN
The Song-Writing Process: A Woman's Struggle Against Depression and Suicide
Georgia Hudson Smith
CASE FIFTEEN
Four Voices
Sylka Uhlig
CASE SIXTEEN
Songs In Palliative Care: A Spouse's Last Gift
Jane Whittall