Case Studies in Music Therapy
Reviews
Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements v
Dedication vii
Preface ix
Unit One: Introduction
The Fundamentals of Music Therapy Practice
By Kenneth E. Brusica
3
Unit Two: Case Studies with Children  

1. Like Singing With A Bird:
Improvisational Music Therapy With
A Blind Four-Year-Old
By Jo Salas and David Gonzalez

17

2. The Use of Piano Improvisation
In Developing Interaction And Participation
In a Blind Boy with Behavioral Disturbances
By Helen Shoemark

29

3. Music Therapy For A Girl With Rett’s Syndrome:
Balancing Structure and Freedom
By Tony Wigram

39
4. Self-Communications In Creative Music Therapy
By Carol Robbing and Clive Robbins
55
5. Off-Beat Music Therapy:
By Edith Lecourt
73
6. The Boy That Nobody Wanted:
Creative Experiences For A Boy
With Severe Emotional Problems
By Fran Herman
99
7. Creative Fantasy, Music And Lyric Improvisation
With A Gifted Acting-Out Boy
By Kenneth Aigen
109
8. Music Therapy In Working Through
A Preschooler’s Grief:
Expressing Rage and Confusion
By Kerry Burke
127
9. Improvisation And Play In The Therapeutic
Engagement Of A Five-Year-Old Boy
With Physical and Interpersonal Problems
By Pamela Bartram
137
10. The Use Of Latin Music, Puppetry, And Visualization
In Reducing The Physical And Emotional Pain
Of A Child With Severe Burns
By Rebecca Loveszy
153
11. Preverbal Communication Through Music
To Overcome A Child’s Language Disorder
By Amelia Oldfield
163
12. Group Music Therapy With A Classroom Of
6-8 Year-Old Hyperactive-Learning Disabled Children
By Julie Hibben
175
13. The Effect of Prorammed Pitch Practice and Private
Instruction On The Vocal Reproduction Accuracy
Of Hearing Impaired Children: Two Case Studies
By Alice-Ann Darrow and Nicki Cohen
191
Unit Three: Case Studies With Adolescents
14. Improvised Song Stories In The Treatment Of
A 13-Year-Old Sexually Abused Girl From
The Xhosa Tribe In South Africa
By Helen Henderson
207
15. All Her Yesterdays: An Adolescent’s Search
For A Better Today Through Music
By Claire Lefebvre
219
16. Creative Music Therapy In Bringing Order,
Change And Communicativeness To The Life
Of A Brain-Injured Adolescent
By Clive Robbins and Carol Robbins
231
17. Individual Music Therapy For An Adolescent
With Borderline Personality Disorder:
An Object Relations Approach
By Janice Dvorkin
251
Unit Four: Case Studies With Adults
18. Mia’s Fourteenth—The Symphony of Fate:
Psychodynamic Improvisation Therapy With
A Music Therapy Student In Training
By Benedikte Barth Scheiby
271
19. The Musical Mirror: Music Therapy
For The Narcissistically Injured
By Diane Snow Austin
291
20. Guided Imagery and Music (GIM):
Healing The Wounded Healer
By Rhonda Lineburg Rinker
309
21. Emergence of The Adult Self In
Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) Therapy
By Marilyn F. Clark
321
22. The Use of Musical Space With
An Adult In Psychotherapy
By Carolyn Kenny
333
23. Improvisation And Guided Imagery And Music (GIM)
With A Physically Disabled Woman:
A Gestalt Approach
By Elizabeth Moffitt
347
Unit Five: Case Studies With Adults in Psychiatric Treatment  
24. Original Song Drawings In The Treatment Of
A Developmentally Disabled, Autistic Adult
By Rosemary Fischer
359
25. Music Therapy For A Nonverbal Autistic Adult
By Ginger Clarkson
373
26. Musical Improvisation In The Treatment Of A man
With Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
By Jose van den Hurk and Henk Smeijsters
387
27. Integrated Music Therapy With A Schizophrenic Woman
By Gabriella Giordanella Perilli
403
28. Group Improvisation Therapy:
The Experience Of One Man With Schizophrenia
By Helen Odell Miller
417
29. Composition, Improvisation and Poetry In The
Psychiatric Treatment Of A Forensic Patient
By Phyllis Boone
433
30. Group Improvisation Therapy For A Resistant
Woman With Bipolar Disorder –Manic
By Paul Nolan
451
31. Group Music Therapy In Acute Psychiatric Care:
The Treatment Of A Depressed Woman
Following Neurological Trauma
By Marcia Murphy
465
32. The Song-Writing Process: A Woman’s Struggle
Against Depression and Suicide
By Georgia Hudson Smith
479
33. Guided Imagery And Music (GIM) With A
Dually Diagnosed woman Having Multiple Addictions
By Eugenia Pickett
497
34. Group Music Therapy For Women
With Multiple Personalities
By C. John Duey
513
Unit Six: Case Studies With adults In Medical Treatment  
35. Music Therapy At Childbirth
By Dianne Allison
529
36. Reclaiming A Positive Identity:
Music Therapy In The Aftermath Of A Stroke
By Nancy McMaster
547
37. Rehabilitation of Piano Performance Skills
Following A Left Cerebral Vascular Accident
By Denise Erdonmez
561
38. Music Therapy For A Severly Regressed Person
With A Probable Diagnosis Of Alzheimer’s Disease
By Alicia Clair
571
39. Embracing Life With AIDS: Psychotherapy
Through Guided Imagery and Music (GIM)
By Kenneth E. Bruscia
581
40. Songs In Palliative Care: A Spouse’s Last Gift
By Jane Whittall
603
41. Life Review With A Palliative Care Patient
By Cheryl Beggs
611
42. Music Therapy At The End Of A Life
By Jenny A. Martin
617
Appendices  
A. Clinical Conditions Addressed in Case Studies 635
B. Clinical Settings of Case Studies 636
C. Music Therapy Methods Used in Case Studies 637
D. Theoretical Orientations in Case Studies 638