The Music Therapy Studio: Empowering the Soul's Truth

Contents

• Foreword by Jon Samson
• Preface
• Part I: Music Therapy Studio: The Foundation
• Introduction: Welcome to the Studio
• Alan: A Search for Competence
• What Makes It Therapy?
• Connection, Communication, Expansion
• Unconditional Acceptance
• Commitment
• Generalization
• Chapter 1: My Journey into Music Therapy
• What is the Relationship Between "Typical" Musicianship and Music Therapy?
• Oh, Yeah, My Sister Has a Relaxing Music App: Misunderstanding Music Therapy
• Backstory: So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star
• Paradigm Shift: My Discovery of Music Therapy
• Back to School: Well, Not So Fast
• William: Unforgettable
• Clinician: Who, Me?
• Life is Dukkha
• Chapter 2: Music Therapy Studio
• Activities of Musicians
• Which Way Do We Go
• Digging the Well
• The Four Experiential States of Music Therapy
• Beyond Entertainment
• The Socio-Political Impetus of Music as Therapy
• Love Me for Who I Am
• Genius, Prophet, Patient
• Daniel: Heaven and Earth
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.
• Noel: To Make a Better World for All to See
• Chapter 3: Sacred Space
• The Music Room
• Holding Space
• Interactive Space
• Akasha
• Chapter 4: Lessons from Nordoff-Robbins
• The Music Child
• The Musical Form Itself is the Intervention
• We Are Here to Work
• Indexing and Assessment
• Mutuality
• The Archetypal Aspects of Music
• Changes in Musical Expression are Seen as Significant Changes in Self
• Living in the Creative Now
• A New Moral Reality
• Thomas: Being in Music
• Part II: Music Therapy Studio: The Framework
• Chapter 5: Instruction and Practice
• Practice, Practice, Practice. Then Forget All That and Just Wail
• Susannah: Facing the Challenges of Autism
• BioNeuro Music Therapy
• We All Learn from Each Other
• James: Broken Brain
• Chapter 6: Jamming
• Improvisation: Playing Without Memory
• David: The Healing Power of Coltrane's "Giant Steps"
• Owen: A Beautiful Connection
• Idiom and Archetype
• Facilitating Risky Interaction: Giving Permission to Express What's There
• Clinical Aesthetics: The Systems Model of Creativity
• Danielle: Not So Tough
• Chapter 7: Composing
• "Songwriting? What Do I Know About Songwriting?"
• JeanMarie: Family
• Songs as Personal Mythology
• George: Speechless
• Chapter 8: Performing & Recording
• What You Say Here, Stays Here. What You Play Here Well, That Might Go Somewhere
• Hey Gang, Let's Put On a Show!
• Public Expression as Therapy: Essential Questions
• Community Music Therapy
• Director/Producer/Music Therapist: Whose Work is This, Anyway?
• Darryl: I Was Alone
• Together We Dream - Together We Heal
• Some Benefits of a Recording Project in a Post-Acute Rehab Setting We Can (Hopefully) All Agree Upon
• Censorship
• John: Set Me Free!
• Community Reverberations
• Chapter 9: Goals
• Ronnie: Hello, Goodbye
• There is No Such Thing as Resistance, Only Imperfect Communication
• What Are We Looking For?
• Therapist - 1, Client - 0: Documenting Measurable Behavior.
• The Elements of Well-Being
• Flow and the Elements of Well-Being
• Documenting the Elements of Well-Being
• Adapting the Elements of Well-Being
• If You Don't Know Where You're Going, You Might Not Get There
• Chapter 10: Ritual
• The Children's Performance Group: Redefining Expectations
• God Bless America: It Almost Didn't Happen That Way.
• Music Contains Magic
• Clinical Paradigm Shift
• Part III: Music Therapy Studio: The Philosophy
• Chapter 11: Transcendance
• The Famous Double Slit Experiment
• And That's Not All
• Far Out, Man But What Does This Have to Do with Music Therapy?
• Attractor Patterns
• David Hawkins's Levels of Consciousness
• I'm Picking Up Good Vibrations: Practical Applications
• Expression vs. Depression: Shifting the Directionality of Life Energy
• The Transcendence of Individual Identity: The Whole Universe is Singing
• Rose: Set the Artist Free
• Chapter 12: Curing Versus Healing
• Akashic Records: Nothing is Irrevocably Lost but Everything is Irrevocably Stored
• You Are the Universe
• Die and Be Again
• No Axe to Grind
• Can I Change All the Darkness and Misery in the World? No. Can I Bring Music Into Those Places? Yes
• And That's All I Have to Say About That
• References