Music, Music Therapy and Trauma: International Perspectives

by Sutton, Julie P.

• ISBN13: 9781843100270
• ISBN10: 1843100274
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY

Summary

(Jessica Kingsley) Text includes specific examples and case studies to address the interest in the effects of trauma and how music therapy can provide a way through this complex experience. Covers the neurology of trauma and music, general issues, social and cultural perspectives, and ways of contextualizing contemporary classical music and conflict. Softcover.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	10	(1)
Introduction	11	(10)
Julie P. Sutton
Part 1 Trauma Perspectives
Trauma	21	(20)
Trauma in Context
Julie P. Sutton
Neurology	41	(16)
The Brain - its Music and its Emotion: the Neurology of Trauma
Michael Swallow
Part 2 Culture, Society and Musical Perspectives
Culture and Society	57	(26)
The Role of Creativity in Healing and Recovering One's Power after Victimisation
Marie Smyth
Musical Persepctives	83	(14)
The Politics of Silence: the Northern Ireland Composer and the Troubles
Hilary Bracefield
Part 3 International Clinical Perspectives
South Africa	97	(22)
Fragile Rhythms and Uncertain Listenings: Perspectives from Music Therapy with South African Children
Mercedes Pavlicevic
UK	119	(14)
Music and Human Rights
Matthew Dixon
Ireland	133	(20)
See Me, Hear Me, Play With Me: Working with the Trauma of Early Abandonment and Deprivation in Psychodynamic Music Therapy
Ruth Walsh Stewart
David Stewart
Bosnia	153	(22)
A Music Therapy Service in a Post-war Environment
Louise Lang
UK	175	(18)
In the Music Prison: the Story of Pablo
Helen M. Tyler
Israel	193	(18)
Trauma and its Relation to Sound and Music
Adva Frank-Schwebel
David Yellin
Part 4 The Support Perspective
Supervision	211	(20)
Processes in Listening Together - an Experience of Distance Supervision of Work with Traumatised Children
Louise Lang
Julie P. Sutton
The Wounded Healer	231	(29)
The Voice of Trauma: a Wounded Healer's Perspective
Diane Austin
Afterword	260	(2)
Julie P. Sutton
List of Contributors	262	(3)
Subject Index	265	(6)
Author Index	271