Sounding the self : analogy in improvisational music therapy / Henk Smeijsters.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-204) and index.

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PART I: RESEARCH AND THEORY IN MUSIC THERAPY -- Chapter One: Multiple perspectives on the development of an evidence-based music therapy: A personal history -- Chapter Two: Criteria for indications in music therapy -- Chapter Three: Toward a general theory of music therapy? -- PART II: TOWARD A THEORY OF ANALOGY IN MUSIC THERAPY -- Chapter Four: The power of music -- Chapter Five: Analogy: A core category in the writings of music therapists -- Chapter Six : Forms of feeling and forms of perception -- Chapter Seven: Defining and redefining the core category of analogy -- Chapter Eight: The analogy of musical interaction and the development of an independent self -- Chapter Nine: Examples of analogy from research and clinical practice -- Chapter Ten: Researching analogies -- Chapter Eleven: Epilogue: A never-ending story.

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"An exciting journey into the development of a general theory of music therapy. Based on Daniel Sterns concept of vitality affects, the author developed the theory of analogy, which tries to explain how a person in the music sounds his or her Self, and how the Self interacts with the environment. The book is based on the philosophical view that language is a limited mode for representing human experience, In the authors opinion, language is only one way of understanding, based on the verbal modeling of experience; whereas music gives understanding of what is beyond words. From the same angle, the author discusses the meaning of symbolic knowledge versus the intimate knowledge of analogy. This raises the question if a theory in words ever can describe what is beyond words. The book is the result of many years of theoretical inquiries and naturalistic case study research. It offers an integrated model for answering the question why music therapy helps the client. Each question within the model is linked to topics of music therapy research, such as: the development of treatment goals and interventions, the effectiveness of treatment, and the development of rationales about treatment and effectiveness."--Publisher's website

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