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Exploring the Musical Mind – Cognition, Emotion, Ability, Function Published by Oxford University Press, 2005 Price £24.95 By John Sloboda In the 20 years since the publication of John Sloboda’s landmark volume The Musical Mind, music psychology has developed as a vibrant area of research, exerting influence on areas as diverse as music education and cognitive neuroscience. This new book brings together 24 selected essays and reviews written by an internationally acclaimed authority on music and the mind. Chapters are grouped into four main areas of study: cognitive processes (including music reading, memory, and performance); emotion and motivation; talent and skill development; and music in the real world (including functions of music in everyday life and culture). The book ends with a newly written chapter on music psychology and social benefits. The book brings together a range of influential writings to provide a compendious overview of a subject that has come to maturity during the author’s career, a career that has significantly contributed to the development of the field. Finishing Strong - Treating Chemical Addictions with Music and Imagery Published by MMB, 1997, Price £8.00 By Ruth Skaggs
This book will provide new thoughts about addictions and treatments and will open doors to other creative avenues for approaching such a devastating problem.
Health, the Individual, and Integrated Medicine - Revisting an Aesthetic of Health Care Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004, Price £17.95 By David Aldridge Challenging conventional medicine and ideas about illness, David Aldridge describes health as a functional aesthetic relating to the performed body. Viewed in this way as an active performance, our health is played out to an audience, or in other words, a cultural and social field. Thus David Aldridge examines cultural understandings of illness and medicines, such as the concept of ‘catching a cold’. Continued awareness that both healers and patients are not independent of cultural contexts has implications for clinical practice and, more fundamentally, research endeavours as this encourages a new understanding of healing rather than the management of disease.
David Aldridge provides a critique of orthodox methods used to assess treatment and advocates a more pluralistic approach to medical research and practice, encompassing the physical, psychological, spiritual and social dimensions of a person’s life. Healthcare professionals as well as music therapists and other therapists in healthcare settings will be inspired by this direct, thoughtful and innovative book, that also offers guidelines for research.
Mental Handicap and the Human Condition - New Approaches from the Tavistock Published by Free Association Books, 1993, Price £19.95 By Valerie Sinason This book is about the people officially and bureaucratically designated mentally handicapped, but also about the ways in which all of us suffer from the limitations and self-limitations which can be discerned from clinical work on the inner world of those so designated. What is the sense in 'stupidity'? Valerie Sinason has written an innovative, stimulating and moving work which includes a wealth of clinical material drawn from more than ten years' practice in the field. She is Principal Psychotherapist in the Child and Family Department, Day Unit and Adult Department, Tavistock Clinic, London, and Psychotherapist Convenor of the Mental Handicap Workshop there. Valerie Sinason is a highly regarded poet and writes regularly on mental health issues in The Guardian.
Spirituality, Healing and Medicine Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2000, Price £17.95 By David Aldridge
The spiritual factors associated with healing are increasingly being acknowledged by modern medicine. Our definition of what constitutes health has expanded beyond the purely medical, yet the delivery of modern medicine to the patient often fails to take this into account. David Aldridge presents the first unified approach to the subject. He evaluates the existing literature from across the disciplines to ascertain just how effective and influential spiritual healing may be on the patient's physical and psychological well-being. He encourages us to redefine treatment strategies and the ways in which we understand health, and argues that the spiritual elements of experience help the patient to find purpose, meaning and hope in the face of sickness. The Music Effect – Music Physiology and Clinical Applications By Daniel J. Schneck and Dorita S Berger Forward by George D Patrick Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006 Price £17.99 Music is well known to have a significant effect on physiology and is widely used as an effective therapeutic tool in stress and pain management, rehabilitation, and behaviour modification, but its effects are not well understood. This book explains what "music" is, how it is processed by and affects the body, and how it can be applied in a range of physiological and psychological conditions. Rhythm, melody, timbre, harmony, dynamics, and form, and their effects on the body are explored in detail, helping practitioners create effective therapy interventions that complement other treatment systems. Case studies and evidence from research and practice show how music therapy can benefit people with, among other conditions, autistic spectrum disorders, Down syndrome, schizophrenia, and sensory difficulties, among other conditions. The Music Effect is an essential resource for music therapists, clinicians, educators and anyone with an interest in holistic therapy. Understanding Trauma - A Psychoanalytical Approach Published by Karnac, First Published in 1998, Second Edition Published 1999, This edition printed in 2002, Price £17.99 By Caroline Garland Major disasters draw attention forcibly to their effects on the survivors. Less often recognised are the long-term after-affects on the huge number and variety of more private events, either accidental or deliberately inflicted, on an individual's subsequent emotional and working life. This book is about what follows the breakdown in functioning, either short or long-term, provoked by a traumatic event. What is distinctive about this book is that its authors offer a psychoanalytical understanding of the meaning of the trauma for an individual, illuminating theory with detailed clinical illustration and case histories. They show the process of treatment as their patients restore meaning to their lives, moving towards a new integration in which the event becomes a part of the whole, no longer dominating either their waking or sleeping life. A range of therapeutic procedures is described, including a short series of individual and group consultations, and full analysis. 'I recommend this book to all who are interested in clinical work with trauma survivors and those with severe borderline personality disturbances with which early traumata are frequently associated. There has long been a connection between trauma and psychoanalysis but it is a subject given a fresh enquiry in this book'. - Marion Lipkin in Reflections
'Garland's editorial work has produced a coherent and readable account of the work of the unit without denying the contributors their individual voices. The great strength of the book is in its clear and detailed clinical descriptions of the psychoanalytic method as it can be applied in an NHS setting and its demonstration of the subtlety and complexity of thinking that the different authors bring to their therapeutic work' - Susan Davison in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
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