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