The Music of Being: Music Therapy, Winnicott and the School of Object Relations

Contents

• Introduction.
• 1. Object Relations.
• 2. The Language of Music and the Music of Winnicott.
• 3. The Music of Beginning.
• 4. Holding and the Early Environment.
• 5. The Observation of Infants in a Set Situation.
• 6. Transitional Objects and the Transitional Phenomena.
• 7. The Use of an Object and Relating through Identifications.
• 7.1. Aggression.
• 7.2. Hate.
• 8. Playing.
• 8.1. Theory of Play.
• 8.2. Musical Play.
• 9. A Sense of Self and Music Therapy.
• 10. Transference and Countertransference.
• 11. Therapeutic Practice. References.