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Author Ready, Trisha, author

Title Music in therapeutic practice : using rhythm to bridge communication barriers / Trisha Ready
Published Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Metaphors of music: a literature review -- Music and bonding -- Blue eyes, bread, and water -- Imaginary nightclub as potential space -- Ramble on: raves, social urges, and psychosis -- Wrote on your wall before leaving -- Play Marshall Mathers, please
Summary Music in Therapeutic Practice: Using Rhythm to Bridge Communication Barriers builds upon an emerging awareness in psychotherapy that music can create therapeutic rapport with patients. Music has been described as our first language, beginning with our mother's heartbeat. Ready illustrates how music provides alternative access to patients undergoing severe mental health issues by interweaving the psychoanalytic theories of Wilfred Bion, Daniel Stern, and others with those of ethnomusicologists, psychobiologists, and neurobiologists who believe our early urges toward music are attempts to social
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Music therapy.
Psychotherapy and music.
Mental illness -- Treatment.
Music Therapy
Mental Disorders -- therapy
MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
Mental illness -- Treatment
Music therapy
Psychotherapy and music
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016028786
ISBN 9781442236219
1442236213