Psychodynamic Music Therapy: Case Studies

Susan Hadley

Print ISBNs: 1-891278-16-9 or 978-1-891278-16-7

E-ISBN: 978-1-891278-86-0

$42	$42	$42

A collection of 21 case studies exemplifying psychodynamic music therapy, informed variously by the theories of Freud, Jung, Klein, Winnicott, Stern, Kohut, Mahler, Bion, and others. Experienced music therapists from nine countries describe their work with children, adolescents, and adults. Diverse methods are featured, including: improvisation, songs, music imaging, and music listening. The length of treatment ranges from a few sessions spread over a couple of months to weekly sessions spanning 6 years. One distinguishing feature of the book is the illumination of how transference, countertransference, resistance, and defenses are manifested in the musical relationship between therapist and client. Engagingly written, these case studies capture the depth and far-reaching possibilities of music therapy, thus demonstrating the importance of training in advanced techniques in music therapy. (ISBN 1-891278-16-9, 448 pages, $42).

Reviews By:

* Tony Wigram in the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy: Book Reviews Online (May 13, 2003).

* Katrina McFerran, PhD, RMT: The Australian Journal of Music Therapy (2004), 15 (1), 84-86

* Jennifer Nicol in the Canadian Journal of Music Therapy, 2008.

Table of Contents
DedicationAcknowledgmentsContributorsPreface	iiivxixix
Introduction: Psychodynamic Music Therapy:An OverviewSusan Hadley	1
Part One Children
Case 1: “Couldn’t Put Humpty Together Again”:Symbolic Play with a Terminally Ill Child Catherine SweeneyCase 2: Being Beverly: Music Therapy with a Troubled Eight-Year-Old Girl Helen M. TylerCase 3: Speaking without Talking: Fifty Analytical Music Therapy Sessions with a Boy with Selective Mutism Wolfgang MahnsCase 4: Melodic Song as Crying/Rhythmic Song as Laughing: A Case Study of Vocal Improvisation with an Autistic Child Gianluigi de Franco Case 5: Growing Up Alone: Analytical Music Therapy with Children of Parents Treated within a Drug and Substance Abuse Program Juliane Kowski Case 6: The Voice from the Cocoon: Song and Imagery in Treating Trauma in Children Susan Bray Wesley Case 7: Working with Jenny: Stories Gender, Power and Abuse Penny J. Rogers Case 8: The Healing Function of Improvised Songs in Music Therapy with a Child Survivor of Early Trauma and Sexual Abuse Jacqueline Z. Robarts Case 9: The Girl Who Barked: Object Relations Music Pyschotherapy with an Eleven- Year-Old Autistic Female Janice M. Dvorkin and Misty D. Erlund	23375373 87 105 123 141 183
Part Two Adolescents
Case10: “Promise to Take Good Care of It!”:Therapy with IraViola Schönfeld Case 11: The Knight Inside the Armor:Music Therapy with a Deprived Teenager Simona Katz Nirensztein Case 12: “Music Speaks of a Story” The Vocal Universe of an Adolescent Gabrielle Fruchard and Edith Lecourt	207225 241
Part Three Adults
Case 13: The Significance of Triadic Structuresin Patients Undergoing Therapy forPsychosis in a Psychiatric WardSusanne Metzner Case 14: The Case of Marianne: Repetition and Music Form in Psychosis Jos De Backer and Jan Van Camp Case 15: Protect This Child: Psychodynamic Music Therapy with a Gifted Musician Louise Montello Case 16: Through Music to Therapeutic Attachment: Psychodynamic Music Psychotherapy with a Musician with Dysthymic Disorder Paul Nolan Case 17: Meeting Rich: Individual Music Therapy with a Man who has Severe Disabilities Rioa Rafieyan Case 18: Harmony and Dissonance in Conflict: Psychoanalytically Informed Music Therapy with a Psychosomatic Patient Mechtild Jahn-Langenberg Case 19: The Revival of the Frozen Sea Urchin: Music Therapy with a Psychiatric Patient Inge Nygaard Pedersen Case 20: Healing an Inflamed Body: The Bonny Method of GIM in Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis Denise Grocke Case 21: A Woman’s Change from being Nobody To Somebody: Music Therapy with a Middle-Aged, Speechless, and Self-Destructive Woman Niels Hannibal	257273 299 319 339 357 375 403
Index	415