English description: Recurring and chronic pain causes suffering and fear, interferes with one's capability to experience and perceive, and affects the overall quality of life. The treatment of pain patients demands an interdisciplinary approach, as it has been proven that no single existing treatment method adequately addresses the phenomenon of pain on its own. This volume demonstrates how music therapy can contribute to this approach by focusing on three main areas: theoretical scientific foundations of clinical relevance and musicalimaginative pain therapy; examples of practical...

English summary: Music oriented learning processes and musical experiences are interrelated. But what remains of music when one can only hear badly or not at all? How is music accessible to the hard-of-hearing and the deaf, and what insights can music teachers and therapists gain from this knowledge? This book provides an interdisciplinary exchange between the natural sciences and music education and therapy. German description: Die Autorinnen nahern sich dem Thema Musikwahrnehmung von unterschiedlichen Seiten. Woher kommt das eigene padagogische Handeln, wie lauten die Rahmenbedingungen und...

Das Monochord ist ein Saiteninstrument, das durch die Experimente des Pythagoras bekannt wurde und noch heute in der harmonikalen Forschung eine zentrale Rolle spielt. Sein Siegeszug in die Instrumentensammlung von Musikern, Musikpadagogen, Musiktherapeuten und experimentierfreudigen Laien begann in den 1980er Jahren, nachdem das Monochord am Freien Musikzentrum Munchen in musiktherapeutischen und harmonikalen Seminaren sowie in Bau- und Spielworkshops bekannt wurde. Heute dient es, aufgrund seiner leichten Spielbarkeit, vielen Menschen zur Wiederentdeckung der eigenen Musikalitat und wird...

English Summary: The theme of this book is presented in chapters covering basic principles in theory and practice. Three individuals with a hearing impairment report on their development, experience and personal approaches to music. These are followed by chapters on developmental topics, an overview of music in education and therapy, and insight into recent research on music perception. Different educational and therapeutic approaches using music and/or movement relevant to different age groups are described and extended in reports on music and movement with various groups - from preschool...

Obwohl noch recht jung auf diesem Gebiet, hat sich die Musiktherapie als wirksame Behandlungsform bei Patienten mit erworbener Hirnschadigung in Deutschland etabliert. Damit entwickelte sich ein eigenes Berufsbild, welches in diesem Buch erstmals umfassend dargestellt wird. Neben der Vermittlung von Fachwissen und wissenschaftlichem Hintergrund werden die Besonderheiten hirnverletzter Patienten wie auch die spezielle Herangehensweise von Musiktherapeuten dargestellt. In einfuhlsamen Beschreibungen von Therapieprozessen werden musiktherapeutische Interventionen und Methoden in den...

English description: The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) is a psychotherapy method in which music is used. The patient listens to a selection of mainly classical music in a relaxed state while communicating his or her experiences (= imagery) to the therapist. Theoretical backgrounds, clinical applications, and theory of music and of imagery specific to GIM and its modifications - these areas are covered in this textbook. The authors give an extensive and comprehensive insight into the method both for clinical mental health care professionals, and for GIM-students. German...

English summary: The "music therapy component theory" known from Transitions Between Language and Music (now out of print) appears fully revised and greatly reduced in the first part of this text. The second part develops a general therapy view of improvisation as a social model. On this basis, the social, musical, and methodological differentiation of the theory's components are investigated qualitatively and quantitatively from a unique research approach, leading to surprising results. German description: Die aus "Ubergange zwischen Sprache und Musik" bekannte "musiktherapeutische...

Kinder und Jugendliche mit schweren Behinderungen stellen ihre Dialogpartner, hausliche Bezugspersonen ebenso wie Fachpersonal, vor vielfaltige Herausforderungen. Ihre korperlichen und geistigen Behinderungen, die Ausdrucksbehinderung nichtsprechender Kinder - kurz gesagt: das Anderssein dieser Kinder macht uns das Verstehen ihrer Ausserungen haufig schwer.Mit Musik gelingt es spurbar, Barrieren abzubauen und Begegnungen zu ermoglichen. Es wird moglich, sich einzufuhlen, etwas von den Lebensthemen der Kinder und Jugendlichen zu verstehen, in einen musikalischen Austausch zu gelangen und...

English Summary: "That which is raised up from the ocean of the subconscious by music therapy can be pulled ashore with the help of psychodramatic elements." This effect is illustrated with striking examples from child and adolescent psychiatry, neurology and adults' therapy, which are analysed in a sophisticated way. Various psychodramatic techniques and instruments supplement the current methods of music therapy. The author explains in what ways psychodramatic instruments and techniques can reinforce the therapeutic process in music therapy. They are particularly helpful in intensifying and...

English summary: This book offers an overview presenting and discussing the potentials, capabilities and settings of Outdoor Music Therapy in a theoretical and practical manner and comparing them to relevant music therapeutic developments (such as Community Music Therapy). Furthermore the results and knowledge gained through a survey concerning the characteristics of Outdoor Music Therapy, in which internationally renowned music therapists participated, are debated. The adventurous, belletristic style of writing invites a wide readership to "plunge" into the careful, healthy world of Outdoor...