scholarly journals On improvisation as dreaming and the therapist’s authentic use of self in music therapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-18
Author(s):  
Martin Lawes
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Use Of Self ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Relational Knowing ◽  
Affect Attunement ◽  
First Time

This article discusses the Music Therapist’s authentic use of self in improvisation-based music therapy to involve the therapist’s ability to ‘dream in music’. The topic is explored with reference to the work of psychoanalyst Thomas Ogden and illustrated with clinical examples from work with an adolescent with autism. The author describes the music-based dreaming through which it was possible to establish a musical connection with the client for the first time that enabled the client’s music and process to evolve as it had not previously. The thinking presented has links with Winnicott’s ideas about play, creativity and psychotherapy; with Stern’s ideas about implicit relational knowing, intersubjectivity and affect attunement; and with theorising about transference and counter-transference in music therapy. The article develops a theory of dreaming in music that highlights the importance of the therapist’s ability to work with the creativity of the unconscious, trusting the music that emerges from within.

scholarly journals Working With and Within Chaos

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Brenda Oosthuizen
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Community Music ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
Support Programme ◽  
Group Music Therapy ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Valuable Complement ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
First Time

The Support Programme for Abuse Reactive Children, was initiated by the Teddy Bear Clinic (an NPO established to protect abused children) in South Africa in response to the increase of child-on-child offenders in this country.  This short-term programme aims to offer holistic rehabilitation to first time young sex offenders and incorporates conventional diversion approaches alongside creative programmes, including group music therapy. Based on a review of my session notes, this paper considers challenges and positive developments I experienced over time as the programme’s music therapist from 2006 to 2016. Although I often experienced this work as chaotic, findings suggest that through co-creating a context-specific music therapy programme alongside group members, clinic staff and the broader community, music therapy has offered an increasingly relevant and valuable complement to the diversion programme. Continuing challenges within this work are also highlighted.

Music and Developmental Disabilities

2016 ◽  
pp. 2374-2391
Author(s):  
Michelle Renee Blumstein
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Developmental Delays ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Building Environment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time

The following chapter presents a compilation of research about various types of technology that are employed by music therapists to benefit children with developmental delays. Music therapy can be an effective way to meet the goals of the individual. Music can also be a very powerful motivator. Previous musical skill or experience is not required for music therapy to be effective for clients with developmental disabilities or for clients more generally. Many music-based technologies are designed to create a positive, successful, and enjoyable experience for all users. Music therapy can provide a safe and confidence building environment where children are able to feel in control of a situation, possibly for the first time in their lives.

Jacques the Sophist

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Cassin
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Relationship ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Social Link ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Alter Ego ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

“The psychoanalyst is a sign of the presence of the sophist in our time, but with a different status.” The surprising confluence of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the texts of the Ancient Greek sophists in Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis becomes a springboard for Barbara Cassin’s highly original re-reading of the writings and seminars of Jacques Lacan. Sophistry, since Plato and Aristotle, has been represented as philosophy’s negative alter ego, its bad other, and this allows her to draw out the “sophistic” elements of Lacan’s own language or how, as she puts it, Lacan “philosophistises”. What both sophists and Lacan have in common is that they radically challenge the very foundations of scientific rationality, and of the relationship of meaning to language, which is shown to operate performatively, at the level of the signifier, and to distance itself from the primacy of truth in philosophy. Our time is said to be the time of the subject of the unconscious, bound to the sexual relationship which does not exist, by contrast with the Greek political animal. As Cassin demonstrates, in a remarkable tour de force, this can be expressed variously in terms of discourse as a social link that has to be negotiated between medicine and politics, between sense and non-sense, between mastery and jouissance. Published originally in French in 2012, Cassin’s book is translated into English for the first time by Michael Syrotinski and includes his translator’s notes, commentary, and index.

Effects of music therapy on labour pain and anxiety in Taiwanese first-time mothers

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1065-1072 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Hsiang Liu ◽  
Mei-Yueh Chang ◽  
Chung-Hey Chen
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Labour Pain ◽  
First Time Mothers ◽  
First Time

scholarly journals Parents’ Perception of Family-Centered Music Therapy with Stable Preterm Infants

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (23) ◽  
pp. 12813
Author(s):  
Susann Kobus ◽  
Marlis Diezel ◽  
Britta Huening ◽  
Monia Vanessa Dewan ◽  
Ursula Felderhoff-Mueser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Preterm Infants ◽  
Premature Birth ◽  
Psychosocial Stress ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
Live Music ◽  
Creative Music ◽  
First Time ◽  
Family Centered

Premature birth places considerable demands on preterm infants and their families. Most of these infants are treated on a neonatal intensive care unit immediately after birth, leading to psychosocial stress for parents and making it more difficult to build a stable parent-child bond. We hypothesized that accompaniment with live music therapy by a music therapist supports the parents to get in contact with their child and to promote the parents’ wellbeing. Preterm infants born at less than 32 gestational weeks received creative music therapy twice a week until discharge. At the time of discharge, the parents were asked to complete a Likert-style questionnaire to evaluate the music therapy. Six items related to socio-demographic characteristics, 4 items to observations on the infant and 10 items to personal perception. Of 40 preterm infants receiving music therapy, 32 (80%) parents completed the questionnaires. Thirty (94%) of these parents were able to relax during the music therapy session. Relaxation in their infants was observed by 29 (91%) during and by 28 (88%) after music therapy. Parents perceived music therapy as a positive change and enrichment during their infant’s hospital stay. All parents were thankful for the music therapy they received. Music therapy supports the parents of preterm infants in the first time after birth until discharge from the hospital.

scholarly journals Trystes Cosmologiques: When Lévi-Strauss Met the Astrologers

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-167
Author(s):  
Graham Douglas
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Important Influence ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
First Time ◽  
Unconscious Mind

In October 1969 the famous anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss gave an interview to the well-known French astrologers André Barbault and Dr JeanPaul Nicola for the astrology magazine L’Astrologue. To the author’s knowledge this interview has never been discussed in academic journals, and is here published for the first time in English translation. It is considered in the context of its time, and of the issues discussed: the Surrealist movement, which had an important influence on Lévi-Strauss’s early work; the structure of the unconscious mind; and the question of causation in astrology. At the end of the interview Lévi-Strauss suggested a joint project with his interviewers to study the interpretations of serious astrologers as a way of understanding how their minds work. According to Dr Nicola, the suggestion was never developed because in his opinion there was no chance of getting astrologers to agree on how to go about it. In the last 20 years however, several theses have been devoted to similar projects.

The Continuity of British Foreign Policy

1959 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 300-322
Author(s):  
M. A. Fitzsimons
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Gallup Poll ◽  
British Foreign Policy ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Government ◽  
First Time

InTheSummer of 1958 the Gallup poll revealed that for the first time since 1955 a small majority of the British electorate favored the Conservative party. The narrowness of the margin made it dangerous for the Conservatives to call for a new election. But an election will take place within a year. The Conservatives are hopeful of another victory — a third successive victory over the Labour party, to cap their feat, unprecedented with the modern electorate, of increasing the parliamentary membership of the Government party in 1955. The Labour party, however, has been duly warned and has already rallied to cover its divisions, banishing them temporarily to the unconscious perhaps only to produce political neuroses in the future.

scholarly journals Incidence of tuberculosis of bones and joints in Sumy region

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-99
Author(s):  
I.D. Duzhyi ◽  
G.P. Oleshchenko ◽  
K.L. Serdiuk
Keyword(s):  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Tuberculous Spondylitis ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
Group Iii ◽  
Osteoarticular Tuberculosis ◽  
Group I ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Long Time ◽  
First Time ◽  
Significant Lesion

Bones and joints, among other extrapulmonary organs, are most often affected by tuberculosis. The clinical picture is often «hidden», the diagnosis of the disease is delayed for a long time with all the negative consequences. Objective — to study the trend in the incidence of tuberculosis of the bone and joint localization of the Sumy region residents in recent years and draw the attention of general practitioners to the urgent problem of today. Materials and methods. We analyzed the incidence of tuberculosis of bones and joints of the Sumy region residents during 2007—2019. During this period, 200 patients with osteoarticular tuberculosis registered in the region. Results and discussion. Over the past 13 years, the number of patients with tuberculosis of the bone and joint localization averaged 2.5 % of all newly detected processes. Tuberculosis of the spine (spondylitis) occurred in 119 (59.5 %) patients, specific inflammation of the hip joint in 49 (24.5 %), knee — in 11 (5.5 %), ankle — in 6 (3.0 %). Tuberculosis of other bones and joints was found in 15 (7.5 %) patients, 60 (50.4 %) patients with tuberculous spondylitis were recognized as disabled for the first time. Of these, the group I was found in 19 (31.7 %), II — in 25 (41.7 %), III — in 16 (26.6 %). Conclusions. In recent years, there has been an increase in the proportion of patients with CST among all newly diagnosed patients in the Sumy region. The spine is most often affected by tuberculosis of the bones and joints (59.5 %). At the same time, a significant lesion (3—4 vertebrae) was recorded in 23 (19.3 %) persons, five and more vertebrae — in 19 (16.0 %) patients. Patients with tuberculous spondylitis in 50.4 % of cases permanently lost their ability to work. Most patients of groups I and II of disability and a significant number of patients of group III require surgical intervention; without its implementation, there are irreversible changes in the vertebrae, which lead to increased medical, biological, and social disability.

Music and Developmental Disabilities

2015 ◽  
pp. 292-309
Author(s):  
Michelle Renee Blumstein
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Developmental Delays ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Building Environment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time

The following chapter presents a compilation of research about various types of technology that are employed by music therapists to benefit children with developmental delays. Music therapy can be an effective way to meet the goals of the individual. Music can also be a very powerful motivator. Previous musical skill or experience is not required for music therapy to be effective for clients with developmental disabilities or for clients more generally. Many music-based technologies are designed to create a positive, successful, and enjoyable experience for all users. Music therapy can provide a safe and confidence building environment where children are able to feel in control of a situation, possibly for the first time in their lives.

A semi-standardized music therapy intervention for girls with Rett syndrome: A descriptive essay

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Marina Luisa Rodocanachi Roidi ◽  
Kumiko Toshimori ◽  
Angelo Colletti ◽  
Enrico Ripamonti ◽  
Ivana Olivieri
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Rett Syndrome ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Neurodevelopmental Disorder ◽  
Rehabilitation Medicine ◽  
Severe Disabilities ◽  
Functional Impairments ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Affect Attunement ◽  
Family Centered

Rett syndrome (RTT) is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder resulting in a wide range of functional impairments and therefore greatly impacts the lives of both patients and their families. While genetic and medical aspects have been studied for several decades, rehabilitation intervention research is still in its infancy. In this study, the investigating researchers have presented a rehabilitative framework by using music therapy for girls with RTT. This model is founded upon the use of music therapy in light of Stern’s proposal of subjective experience and affect attunement; it also refers to Rosenbaum’s family-centered rehabilitation medicine perspective. This study both describes the theory behind this intervention and presents a newly developed outcome measure. This novel tool may have future clinical and research applications. Music therapy for patients with RTT has not been well researched yet, and as a result, is not universally recommended. However this study’s findings suggest that music therapy is an important component of multidisciplinary therapy. Further collaborative research should be encouraged in order to study and implement the use of music therapy in the treatment of severe disabilities. Projects such as the Enablin+program with the support from the European Commission constitute fundamental tools in promoting integrative medical research and international networks.

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