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Music Therapy in Context

Music Therapy in Context

Music, Meaning and Relationship

Mercédès Pavlicevic
Preface by Colwyn Trevarthen

Paperback: £17.99 / $31.95

1997, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
ISBN: 978-1-85302-434-4, BIC 2: AVA MQTC

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Preface, Colwyn Trevarthen. Introduction. 1. Creating Meaning. PART ONE 2. Music, Meaning and Music Therapy: A View from Music Theory. 3. Music Therapy and Universals: Between Culture and Compromise. 4. With Rigour and Imagination: Music Therapy and Music Psychology. 5. Perception, Cognition, Improvisation: A View from Music Therapy. 6. In Concert: Improvisation, Cognition and Music Therapy. PART TWO 7. Meaning in Relationship: The Music Between. 8. Songs Without Words: Music in Communication. 9. Music in Dynamic Form and Dynamic Form in Music. PART THREE 10. Meaning in Relationship: A View from Psychodynamic Theory. 11. Playing with Winnicott's Reality. 12. Psychodynamic Meaning in Music Therapy. 13. Why Do We Become Therapists?

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