Essays on analytical music therapy / by Mary Priestley.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-335).

introduction / J.W.T. Redfearn -- Unit one: Fundamentals -- History and definition -- Getting started with the patient -- The emotional spectrum -- Techniques for probing the conscious -- Techniques for accessing the unconscious -- Techniques for ego-strengthening -- Unit two: The therapeutic relationship -- The therapist-patient relationship -- Transference and countertransference -- More on empathic countertransference -- Survival -- Music therapy and love -- Unit three: The music -- The place of structure in musical improvisation -- The meaning of music -- The musical response -- Unit four: Theoretical concepts -- Some basic concepts of Freud and Klein -- Defence mechanisms and some examples -- Music, Freud and the port of entry -- Unit five: The therapeutic process -- Times of stress and the opportunity for maturation -- Analytical music therapy and "the detour through phantasy" -- The inner child -- Affirmations and celebrations -- Case study of a depressed patient -- Case study: music and the shadow -- Case study: music and the listeners -- Unit six: Variations -- Analytical music therapy with recidivists -- Preliminary music -- Analytical music therapy with children -- Case study: couple therapy -- Intertherapy -- Unit seven: Cadence -- Ending the session or treatment -- Postlude: the ineffable.

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A collectionof the author's writings on the psychodynamic approach to improvisational music therapy that she pioneered in England.

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