Group Analytic Music Therapy
Print ISBNs: 1-891278-50-9 or 978-1-891278-50-1
E-ISBN: 978-1-891278-87-7
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This book introduces Group Analytic Music Therapy (GAMT), different levels of the group, and the different characteristics of musical images. It illustrates that music is the royal road to the unconscious just like dreams. Images created during group analytic music therapy have similar clinical value to dreams. These images, just like dreams, communicate through feelings and body sensations. Their language is metaphorical, emotional and insightful. They speak from and to our hearts. In GAMT, the role of the music therapist is to find ways of making the best therapeutic use of clients feelings, thoughts, bodily sensations, dreams, and images created through music. Images created during improvisation or therapeutic music listening can be seen as part of unconscious intersubjective and interpersonal processes within the group. In GAMT, when someone shares their musical image, other clients are encouraged to provide their own associations too. These images are their own, but at the same time part of the groups collective unconsciousness.
The book is divided into three parts: Part One sets the philosophical foundation of GAMT. The purpose is to provide a group psychotherapeutic context that will be explored in more detail in Parts Two and Three. Part Two presents the theory and method of GAMT and different characteristics of musical images. It discusses how dreams and images created during group analytic music therapy can be a unique source of clinical data. Part Three illustrates theory through a clinical case study of Mary, an invisible woman who turned visible and found her voice during GAMT.
The book includes both theoretical and clinical sections and several case study examples and in-depth analyses. Away from being a first of its kind in music therapy field, this book expands group music therapy theories and proposes a new way of defining clinical group music therapy practice. (ISBN 13: 978-1-891278-50-1, $46)
| Table of Contents | |
| About the Author | iv |
| Acknowledgments | v |
| Table of Contents | vii |
| Preface | xiv |
| Foreword | xviii |
| Introduction | 1 |
| PART I: FOUNDATION 3 Prelude: Being a Group Member Is Part of Who I AmChapter 1: Family
1.1 Footprints Lead to the Sausage Factory 1.1.1 Elephants in the Therapy Room 1.1.2 Family ReunionChapter 2: Empathy 2.1 Lack of Empathy 2.2 Empathetic Understanding 2.3 When Good Enough Is Not Enough 2.4 Empathy or Sympathy?Chapter 3: Therapy Room as The Waiting Room 3.1 Feeling Safe in Order to Feel Unsafe 3.1.1 Wearing Social Antennae 3.1.2 Why Is It Frightening to Come to a Therapy Group? 3.2 People Need Their Defenses 3.2.1 Sweeping Under the Carpet 3.2.2 Psychopathological Balance Chapter 4: Home from Never-Never Land Chapter 5: Metaphors Chapter 6: Group Development |
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| PART II: GROUP ANALYTIC THERAPY (GAMT) 43 Prelude: Conducting the Group
Chapter 7: Free-Floating Discussion 7.1 SilenceChapter 8: Three Windows 8.1 The Intersubjective Window 8.2 The Interpersonal Window 8.3 The Group-as-a-Whole(Group Matrix) WindowChapter 9: Levels of the Group Matrix Chapter 10: Building GAMT Sessions Chapter 11: Clinical Improvisation 11.1 Referential Improvisation 11.2 Nonreferential improvisation Chapter 12: Therapeutic Music Listening Chapter 13: Images Chapter 14: MusicThe Royal Road to the Unconscious Chapter 15: Externalization-Internalization Process Chapter 16: Hall of Mirrors Chapter 17: Practical Issues Chapter 18: Musical Images and the Group Matrix 113 Chapter 19: I Am Able to Communicate Through Music Chapter 20: The Music Reminds Me of My Mother Chapter 21: This Music Sounds as My Feelings Feel Chapter 22: This Music Touches Us All Level of Collective Unconscious Chapter 23: Images and Interpretation |
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| PART III: TOO SCARED TO BE VISIBLE Mary: A Case Study of a Voiceless Woman Who Found Her Identity in a Hall of Mirrors Prelude: Turning VisibleFinding Lost VoicesChapter 24: Do I Dare to Become Visible? 24.1 What Kind of Mother Will This Group Be? 24.1.1 Session 1 24.2 If I Throw Myself Into This Process, Am I Going to Become Crazier or Healthier? 24.2.1 Session 2 24.3 If I Show Myself, Am I Going to Be Accepted or Rejected? 24.3.1 Sessions 3 and 4 24.3.2 Session 5Chapter 25: Becoming Visible 25.1 Is It Safe for the Baby to Be Born? 25.1.1 Session 6 25.2 The Swaddled Baby 25.2.1 Session 7 25.2.2 Session 8 25.3 The Angry Baby 25.3.1 Session 9 25.3.2 Session 10 25.3.3 Sessions 11 to 14Chapter 26: Making More Noise 26.1 Im Not Hiding 26.1.1 Session 15 26.2 Im Not Running Away 26.2.1 Session 16 26.3 Leaving It Behind 26.3.1 Sessions 17 to 19 26.3.2 Session 20 26.3.3 Session 21 26.3.4 Session 22 26.4 Shout for Help 26.4.1 Session 23Chapter 27: Visible and Not Scared 27.1 Listen to MeLook at Me 27.1.1 Session 24 27.2 Liberation 27.2.1 Session 25 27.3 Broken Is Healed 27.3.1 Session 26 Chapter 28: Exploring Marys Dreams and Images Chapter 29: Closure Chapter 30: Final Words Ready to Jump After Flight List of References Appendix |
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