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Vol 8 No 1 1994

Considerations of Developmental Issues in Choosing Interventions for Resistance in Music Therapy  p5 - p6

Janice M. Dvorkin

Abstract

It is the focus of this paper to loo at the idea of resistance as providing information on the primary object experience.  Using this information, the music therapist needs to assess his or her role in playing music during the session, in the same way that he or she assesses verbal interventions.

Perspectives on Music Therapy with People Suffering From Anorexia Nervosa  p7 - p14

Jacqueline Z. Robarts and Ann Sloboda

Abstract

This paper explores the process of music therapy in the treatment of people suffering from anorexia nervosa, with reference to individual clinical work undertaken at an acute psychiatric unit specialising in eating disorders, and at an in-patient child and adolescent psychiatry unit.  Case material illustrates ways in which music therapy supports the individual while addressing the often deeply-rooted problems commonly associated with eating disorders.  These problems include issues of personal identity, negative self-image, distorted body-image, intellectualisation, difficulty in relationships, and issues of autonomy and control, Dynamic forms of spontaneous improvisational music-making and musical therapeutic intervention are discussed.

Autism and Music Therapy - Is Change Possible, and Why Music?  p15 - p25

Sandra M. K. Brown

Abstract

This article looks at the way we make sense of the world around us, and how autism can affect this.  It goes on to consider the relationship of music to ourselves, and then, in the light of these issues, why music used therapeutically may have particular relevance for people with autism.  This is illustrated in the final section by brief case studies of individual music therapy work with children with autism.

Stretto

Supervision  p26 - p27

Book Reviews  p28 - p32

Handbook of Inquiry in the Arts Therapies - One River, Many Currents - Edited by Helen Payne/Reviewed by Leslie Bunt

Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks/Reviewed by Mercédès Pavlicevic

Expressive and Functional Therapies in the Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder - Edited by Estelle S. Kluft/Reviewed by Mary Priestley

Making Music with the Young Handicapped Child - A Guide for Parents, by Elaine Streeter/Reviewed by Amelia Oldfield

Vol 8 No 2 1994

Between Chaos and Creativity: Music Therapy with 'Traumatised' Children in South Africa  p4 - p9

Mercédès Pavlicevic

No abstract

Music Therapy and Forensic Psychiatry - Choice, Denial and the Law  p10 - p18

Helen Loth

Abstract

This paper looks at aspects of work in the forensic psychiatric setting.  It is based on music therapy work in a Medium Secure Unit, situated within a general psychiatric hospital.  It was felt that there were several important differences in working in this unit of the hospital which often seemed to question the feasibility and existence of a music therapy group.  This paper concerns itself with these differences.  A brief introduction to forensic psychiatry and secure units is given first.  This is followed by a short case study of an eight-week music therapy group from which material is used to look at the themes identified.  These are summarized into the headings of choice, denial and the law.  Their effect on the patients is discussed and the ways in which the music therapy group can address the issues involved are highlighted.

Music Therapy: Challenging Low Self-Esteem in People with a Stroke  p19 - p24

Heather Purdie and Steve Baldwin

Abstract

This paper discuses the theoretical background to the concept of low self-esteem can present in a person with a stroke.  Thereafter it looks at the behavioural outcomes and the causes of low self-esteem and goes on to examine how music therapy can be used as an intervention to facilitate behavioural and psychological change in the context of stroke rehabilitation.

Book Reviews  p25 - 31

Music Therapy An Art Beyond Words by Leslie Bunt/Reviewd by Rachel Darnley-Smith

Art Therapy with Offenders - Edited by Marian Liebmann/Reviewed by Ann Slobada

Music and People with Development Disabilities by F.W. Schalkwijk/Reviewed by Julia Usher

The Singing Cure by Paul Newham/Reviewed by Margaret Lobo

Chain Reaction - Children and Divorce by Ofra Ayalon & Adina Flasher/Reviewed by Alison Levinge