Qualitative Music Therapy Research: Beginning Dialogues
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Michael Zanders in the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy Online Book Reviews (April 5, 2004).
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Preface
List of Contributors

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Prologue
Mechtild Langenberg
1
1. The Role of Values in Qualitative Music Therapy Research
Kenneth Aigen
9
2. Qualitative Single-Case Research in Practice:
A Necessary, Reliable, and Valid Alternative
for Music Therapy Research
Henk Smeijesters
35
3. The Story of the Field of Play
Carolyn Bereznak Kenny
55
4. Authenticity Issues in Qualitative Research
Kenneth E. Bruscia
81
5. Experiencing Music Therapy: Meaningful Moments
in the Music Therapy Process
Dorit Amir
109
6. Fusion and Separation: Experiencing Opposites in Music,
Music Therapy, and music Therapy Research
Mechtild Langenberg
Jörg Frommer
Michael Langenbach
131
PART II: DIALOGUES  
1. The Researcher’s Cultural Identity
Kenneth Aigen
165
2. Qualitative Research in Music Therapy:
New Contents, New concepts, or Both?
Henk Smeijsters
179
3. Remembering What’s Between the Lines
Carolyn Bereznak Kenny
191
4. Lunch Talk: Inner Emptiness, A German Problem
Gerd Rieger
201
5. Daedalus and the Labyrinth: A Mythical Research Fantasy
Kenneth E. Bruscia
205
6. Issues in Qualitative Research: A Personal Journey
Dorit Amir
213
7. Interpretation and Epistemology in Music Therapy:
Dealing with competing Claims of Knowledge
Even Ruud
225
8. Translations
Jutta Baur-Morlok
233
9. Qualitative Methods in Music Therapy Research:
Epistemological Considerations
Michael Langenbach and Andreas Stratkotter
241
10. A Psychoanalytic View of Music and
Music Therapy Research
Gerhard Reister
247
Epilogue
Mechtild Langenberg
Jörg Frommer
Michael Langenbach
Kenneth Aigen