Psychodynamic Music Therapy:Case Studies
Reviews
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Reviews - Click to Read Review
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
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Preface

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Introduction: Psychodynamic Music Therapy:
An Overview
Susan Hadley
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Part One Children  

Case 1: “Couldn’t Put Humpty Together Again”:
Symbolic Play with a Terminally Ill Child
Catherine Sweeney

Case 2: Being Beverly: Music Therapy with a
Troubled Eight-Year-Old Girl
Helen M. Tyler

Case 3: Speaking without Talking: Fifty Analytical
Music Therapy Sessions with a Boy with
Selective Mutism
Wolfgang Mahns

Case 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

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Part Two Adolescents  
Case 10: “Promise to Take Good Care of It!”:
Therapy with Ira
Viola 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

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Part Three Adults  
Case 13: The Significance of Triadic Structures
in Patients Undergoing Therapy for
Psychosis in a Psychiatric Ward
Susanne 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

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