Receptive Music Therapy ─ Theory and Practice

A German anthology was published in 2004 to help bolster passive music therapy in a climate where active therapy had long dominated. In order to build bridges with their English-speaking colleagues, the therapist authors have translated 16 of the original 21 articles, and added two new ones. Among the topics are receptive music therapy from a psychoanalytical viewpoint, the guide-traveler relationship as a developmental relationship for the self, anthroposophic music therapy, and stories written under musical induction. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contributor Biography - English Monica Bisseggerteacher and Music Therapist (BVAKT). Trained in Anthroposophic Music Therapy at the Musiktherapeutische Arbeitsstatte e. V. in Berlin, Germany; Director: Maria Schuppel. Since 1990 Music Therapist in Filderklinik, Filderstadt, Germany. Guest Teacher in various music therapy training programs. Fields of experience include: Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Gynaecology, Psychosomatics (children and adults), Intensive Care (children and adults) and Neonatology.Lars Ole BondePhD, is Associate Professor in Music Therapy at the Department of Communication and Psychology (Division of Music Therapy) at Aalborg University, Denmark. He holds a Masters Degree in Musicology and Scandinavian Literature and later trained as a music therapist (FAMI, MTL). As a researcher, he has specialized in the therapeutic understanding and analysis of music in music therapy (using Improvisation as well as pre-composed music) and in the phenomenology and hermeneutics of the musical experience. He is currently involved in cancer care projects, including the establishment of an international network for research in music therapy in oncology. He has published extensively and internationally in the fields of music therapy, music education and music theatre.Hans-Helmut Decker-VoigtProf. Dr., M.A. (Expressive Therapy Lesley College/ Cambridge USA) was born in 1945. He is currently director of the Institute for Music Therapy at the "Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Hamburg", and honorary President of the "Weiterbildungsakademie fur kunstlerische Psychotherapien der Herbert von Karajan-Stiftung in Berlin". He is also Director of the Music Therapy Division of the Clinic "Gut Wienebuttel", an academic teaching Institution and part of the Institute at the Hamburg Hochschule. He is the author and publisher of 60 books an music therapy. In addition, he is the editor of the half-yearly publication, "Musik und Gesundsein" (Music and Being Healthy).Jorg FachnerDr. rer medic. Dipl. Ped., is Senior Research Fellow and holds the Chair for Qualitative Research in Medicine at the University of Witten Herdecke in Germany. He is managing editor of the music therapy research and Service site: www.MusicTherapyWorld.net and editor of the E-Journal: www.MusicTherapyToday.com. Formerly, he worked as a research assistant in physiology, in sensory and movement research. He studied from the University in Dortmund. He holds a degree in social- and education science in Wuppertal and graduated as an educationalist in rehabilitation from the University in Dortmund). In 2001 he finished his doctoral thesis on music perception in an EEG investigation at the Chair for Qualitative Research in Medicine and has recently published a book on music and altered states. His research interests, publications and scientific memberships focus on qualitative research aspects of music, therapy and medicine and music physiology, as well as psychology, youth und pop culture, altered states of consciousness, transcultural psychiatry and anthropology of the body.Isabelle Frohne-HagemannDr. phil., born in 1947, Integrative Music therapist, licensed psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice in Berlin, GIM-Fellow (Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music Fellow ), Assistant Professor of Receptive Music Therapy and GIM at the "Institute of Music Therapy of the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg"; former head of the study program "Integrative Music Therapy", training therapist and supervisor at the European Academy of Psychosocial Health and Promotion of Creativity (Fritz Perls Institute), Huckeswagen; Co-founder of the "Institut fur Musik, Imagination und Therapie, Berlin (IMIT)", Member of the lectorial board of the "Music Therapy Annual" ed. by the "Berufsverband der Musiktherapeuten in Deutschland" (BVM), mumerous publications in the field of Music Therapy.Edith Maria GeigerDipl. Music Therapist, licensed psychotherapist for children and adolescen