Within the last decade music therapists have developed their work with the elderly and with people with dementia. Drawing on the diverse research and considerable personal experience of contributors f
The spiritual factors associated with healing are increasingly being acknowledged by modern medicine. Our definition of what constitutes health has expanded beyond the purely medical, yet the delivery
Explores music as a healing treatment for a variety of medical conditions, including AIDS, cancer, coma, senile dementia, and autism in children. Describes the underlying concept of humans as symphoni
Aldridge (qualitative research in medicine, U. of Witten-Herdecke), who has written several other books on music therapy, compiles 11 essays by European contributors for music therapists and scholars