Clinical Applications of Music Therapy in Psychiatry

In 15 contributions, music therapists from Brooklyn to Belgium reflect on how music one plays or listens to has the ability to penetrate the anguish of grief, pain, and even the cognitive distortions of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. Therapists from diverse theoretical orientations and therapeutic settings, from psychoanalytic to music-facilitated labor and childbirth, discuss the specifics of music therapy through case examples. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Tony Wigram was Professor and Head of PhD Studies in Music Therapy at the University of Aalborg, Denmark, Honorary Research Fellow in the Faculty of Music at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Reader in Music Therapy at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. He was Associate Editor of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, and a former President of both the European Music Therapy Confederation and the World Federation of Music Therapy. He was also Head Music Therapist at the Harper Children's Service in Hertfordshire, UK, and Research Advisor to Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust.