Overview
Addressing current music therapy debates to do with meaning, this text asks such questions as: are words necessary in creative music therapy?; how is clinical improvization distinct from ""pure"" music improvization, and if so what is the distinction?; and how do music therapists address culture-specific nuances in music, and in concepts of healing rituals? The text is divided into three sections. The first section explores concepts and theories developed by music theorists an dmusic psychologists in order to explore meaning in music as artform. The second section looks at the relationship between music and human emotion, in order to establish why, and on what basis, music is used as a therapeutic agent. Finally, the third section draws concepts from psychotherapy and music theory into the music therapy sphere. Music therapists are encouraged not to compromise the musical process at the heart of their practice, not simply to ""borrow"" concepts from allied theories, but to use these with authority.
Full Product Details
Author: Mercedes Pavlicevic
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Imprint: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 23.80cm
Weight: 0.320kg
ISBN: 9781853024344
ISBN 10: 1853024341
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 August 1997
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The author has stimulated our awareness of the truly incredible complexity of all the elements that enter into clinical music therapy improvisation. This important and consciousness-raising book is a profound contribution to the music therapy literature. -- The Arts in Psychotherapy The author brings to this work a rich cultural heritage (from Eastern Europe) and experience (in Scotland and South Africa), a wide reading in music, literature, music psychology and in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Pavlicevic's central concern is the understanding of the relationship between patient or client and music therapist, and the meaning and use of music within it, and her analysis of meaning and of semiotics is clear and helpful. In this volume she uses most aptly clinical vignettes from both her own and others' work which take the reader immediately into her work... [this book] is an important and beautifully written contribution to the psychology of music and therapy. -- British Journal of Medical Psychology I found that Pavlicevic gives a wealth of references and resources. It is as if she lays out a presentation of the theoretical possibilities before identifying the ones she herself prefers to use. This combination of exhaustive research with openness of mind strikes me as an excellent approach to any new discipline, not least the arts therapies. I think you should read this book. -- Dramatherapy
Author Information
Mercédès Pavlicevic was based in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she drew inspiration from a music therapy practice that covers a wide social and cultural spectrum. She spent part of each academic year at the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre in London, UK, where she was an Academic Supervisor and Researcher.
