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The fundamentals of music therapy practice / Kenneth E. Bruscia -- Case studies with children. Like singing with a bird : improvisational music therapy with a blind four-year-old / Jo Salas and David Gonzalez -- The use of piano improvisation in developing interaction and participation in a blind boy with behavioral disturbances / Helen Shoemark -- Music therapy for a girl with Rett's Syndrome : balancing structure and freedom / Tony Wigram -- Self-communications in creative music therapy / Carol Robbins and Clive Robbins -- Off-beat music therapy : a psychoanalytic approach to autism / Edith Lecourt -- The boy that nobody wanted : creative experiences for a boy with severe emotional problems / Fran Herman -- Creative fantasy, music and lyric improvisation with a gifted acting-out boy / Kenneth Aigen -- Music therapy in working through a preschooler's grief : expressing rage and confusion / Kerry Burke -- Improvisation and play in the therapeutic engagement of a five-year-old boy with physical and interpersonal problems / Pamela Bartram -- The use of Latin music, puppetry, and visualization in reducing the physical and emotional pain of a child with severe burns / Rebecca Loveszy -- Preverbal communication through music to overcome a child's language disorder / Amelia Oldfield -- Group music therapy with a classroom of 6-8 year-old hyperactive-learning disabled children / Julie Hibben -- The effect of programmed pitch practice and private instruction on the vocal reproduction accuracy of hearing impaired children : two case studies / Alice-Ann Darrow and Nicki Cohen -- Case studies with adolescents. Improvised song stories in the treatment of a 13 year-old sexually abused girl from the Xhosa tribe in South Africa / Helen Henderson -- All her yesterdays : an adolescent's search for a better today through music / Claire LeFebvre -- Creative music therapy in bringing order, change and communicativeness to the life of a brain-injured adolescent / Clive Robbins and Carol Robbins -- Individual music therapy for an adolescent with borderline personality disorder : an object relations approach / Janice Dvorkin -- Case studies with adults. Mia's fourteenth--the symphony of fate : psychodynamic improvisation therapy with a music therapy student in training / Benedikte Barth Scheiby --

The musical mirror : music therapy for the narcissistically injured / Diane Snow Austin -- Guided imagery and music (GIM) : healing the wounded healer / Rhonda Lineburg Rinker -- Emergence of the adult self in guided imagery and music (GIM) therapy / Marilyn F. Clark -- The use of musical space with an adult in psychotherapy / Carolyn Kenny -- Improvisation and guided imagery and music (GIM) with a physically disabled woman : a Gestalt approach / Elizabeth Moffitt -- Original song drawings in the treatment of a developmentally disabled, autistic adult / Rosemary Fischer -- Music therapy for a nonverbal autistic adult / Ginger Clarkson -- Musical improvisation in the treatment of a man with obsessive compulsive personality disorder / Jose van den Hurt and Henk Smeijsters -- Integrated music therapy with a schizophrenic woman / Gabriella Giordanella Perilli -- Group improvisation therapy : the experience of one man with schizophrenia / Helen Odell Miller -- Composition, improvisation and poetry in the psychiatric treatment of a forensic patient / Phyllis Boone -- Group improvisation therapy for a resistant woman with bipolar disorder - manic / Paul Nolan -- Group music therapy in acute psychiatric care : the treatment of a depressed woman following neurological trauma / Marcia Murphy -- The song-writing process : a woman's struggle against depression and suicide / Georgia Hudson Smith -- Guided imagery and music (GIM) with a dually diagnosed woman having multiple addictions / Eugenia Pickett -- Group music therapy for women with multiple personalities / C. John Duey -- Music therapy at childbirth / Dianne Allison -- Reclaiming a positive identity : music therapy in the aftermath of a stroke / Nancy McMaster -- Rehabilitation of piano performance skills following a left cerebral vascular accident / Denise Erdonmez -- Music therapy for a severly regressed person with a probable diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease / Alicia Clair -- Embracing life with AIDS : psychotherapy through guided imagery and music (GIM) / Kenneth E. Bruscia -- Songs in palliative care : a spouse's last gift / Jane Whittall -- Life review with a palliative care patient / Cheryl Beggs -- Music therapy at the end of life / Jenny A. Martin.

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Authors around the world present 42 cases describing the process of music therapy with a broad spectrum of clients.

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