Clinical Practice

Original essay: Development of a Music Therapy Service in an Australian Public Rehabilitation Hospital by Jeanette Tamplin.

Comments to this essay:

• Wendy L. Magee, May 29, 2006.

Original essay: Dangerous Liaisons: Group Work for Adolescent Girls who have Anorexia Nervosa by Kathrina McFerran.

Comments to this essay:

• Amy Adams, November 30, 2006.

Original essay: Familiarity, Comfortableness and Predictability of Song as "Holding Environment" for Mothers of Premature Babies by Lia Rejane Mendes Barcellos

Comments to this essay:

• Lia Rejane Mendes Barcellos, March 16, 2006.

Original essay: Lose Yourself in the Music, the Moment, Yo! by Sunelle Fouché and Kerryn Torrance.

Comments to this essay:

• Sarah Finger, May 30, 2006.

Original essay: Music Psychotherapy and Community Music Therapy by Alan Turry.

Comments to this essay:

• Saré Chisholm, December 11, 2006.
• Elaine Streeter, July 2, 2006.
• Allison Cross, May 30, 2006.
• Jessica Harrison, December 1, 2005.
• Diane Austin, August 9, 2005.

Original essay: Music Therapy with Traumatized Refugees in a Clinical Setting by Jaap Orth.

Comments to this essay:

• Kathy Jo Gutgsell, December 1, 2005.

Original essay: Reflections on a First Time Experience With a Coma Patient by Nicholas N. Kofie.

Comments to this essay:

• Sonja Granskou, December 19, 2006.
• Maryellen Cash, December 15, 2005.
• Agnes Kahindi, November 11, 2005.
• Bernhard M. Kigunda, August 30, 2005.

Original essay: The Song as an Anchor by Marcia Cirigliano

Comments to this essay:

• Shanna Clark, December 4, 2006.
• Lisa Jackert, March 1, 2006.

Original essay: Why Provide Music Therapy in the Community for Adults With Mental Health Problems? by Helen Odell-Miller

Comments to this essay:

• Brian Johnson, December 4, 2006.

Communicating About Music Therapy

Original essay: The Use of "First Person" Writing Style by Dorit Amir.

Comments to this essay:

• Dan Kolojay, December 4, 2006.
• Cindy Williams, December 1, 2005.
• Elaine Streeter, May 18, 2005.
• Renato Tocantis Sampaio, April 11, 2005.

Original essay: Our Language and Our Attitudes by Barbara Wheeler.

Comments to this essay:

• Lisa Jake, December 11, 2006.
• Alison Mahraj, April 25, 2006.

Community Music Therapy

Original essay: Being Who You Aren't; Doing What You Can't by Gary Ansdell.

Comments to this essay:

• Kathy Jo Gutgsell, March 24, 2006.
• Colin Northrup, December 6, 2005.

Original essay: Community Music Therapy for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities by Sandra L. Curtis & Chesley Sigmon Mercado.

Comments to this essay:

• Angela Shum, November 23, 2006.

Original essay: Music Psychotherapy and Community Music Therapy by Alan Turry.

Comments to this essay:

• Elaine Streeter, July 2, 2006.
• Allison Cross, May 30, 2006.
• Jessica Harrison, December 1, 2005.
• Diane Austin, August 9, 2005.

Original essay: The Individual Kernel of CMT and Music Therapy Community Centres by Thomas Wosch.

Comments to this essay:

• Stuart Wood, July 2, 2006.
• Gary Ansdell, February 1, 2006.

Music Therapy and Culture

Original essay: How Gamelan Music Has Influenced Me as a Music Therapist – A Personal Account by Helen Loth.

Comments to this essay:

• Maeve Rigney, November 23, 2006.

Original essay: Intentional Leadership: Growth, Empowerment and High-Heeled Shoes by Andeline Dos Santos.

Comments to this essay:

• Allison Cross, March 29, 2007.

Original essay: The Importance of Aesthetics as a Dimension in Music Therapy Activity by Carl Bergstroem-Nielsen.

Comments to this essay:

• Tiffany Wilson, April 18, 2007.
• Dr. Suvarna Nalapat, May 30, 2006.

Original essay: The Role of Culture in Group Music Therapy in South Africa by Andeline Dos Santos.

Comments to this essay:

• Paula Dowdy, December 15, 2005.

Original essay: Thoughts on "Experience of Space in Japan." Implications for Music Therapy by Isabelle Mairiaux.

Comments to this essay:

• Elizabeth Teczar, December 11, 2006.

Original essay: Update of Music Therapy in the Republic of Korea by Jinah Kim.

Comments to this essay:

• Julie Nelson, November 30, 2006.

Music Therapy Research

Original essay: Action Research and Music Therapy by Meagan Hunt.

Comments to this essay:

• Sarah Newberry, December 11, 2006.
• Dale Lewis, December 6, 2005.

Original essay: Thresholds Between Practice and Research by Jane Edwards.

Comments to this essay:

• Helen Shoemark, February 20, 2006.

Music Therapy Training

Original essay: Allowing Oneself to Question, Communicating It to Others by Rika Ikuno.

Comments to this essay:

• Christina Giannetti, December, 4, 2006.
• Danielle Cheek, November, 29, 2006.
• Jessica Harrison, May 30, 2006.

Original essay: Music Therapy in the East of Europe Mariya Ivannikova.

Comments to this essay:

• Mariya Ivannikova, December 16, 2005
• Mariya Ivannikova, April 19, 2005
• Paula Dowdy, April 14, 2005
• Silke Jochims, September 13, 2004
• Tetyana Tyby, September 12, 2004
• Mariya Ivannikova, Aug. 3, 2004
• Olena Svatyeva, May 18, 2004
• Mariya Ivannikova, Apr 12, 2004
• Mariya Ivannikova & Thomas Wosch, Aug 4, 2003
• Oksana Zharinova-Sanderson, Nov. 21, 2002.

Original essay: The Influence of the Creative Class by Carolyn Kenny.

Comments to this essay:

• Lara Fejes, March 29, 2007.
• Frank Saracino, December 12, 2005.
• Linda Thieneman, November 2, 2005.

Personal Perspectives on Music Therapy

Original essay: How Do We Nurture Ourselves? by Dorit Amir.

Comments to this essay:

• Sarah Corbin, November 28, 2006.

• Maggie Grube, December 12, 2005.

• Cyndia Williams, May 10, 2005.

• Bevan Day, December 20, 2004.

• Sharon R. Boyle, March 9, 2004.

• Jennifer Greene, December 8, 2003.

• Joanne V. Loewy, September 11, 2003.

• Lara Trimpe, May 19, 2003.

• Amanda Thomason-Gilkey, Dec. 9, 2002.

Original essay: I am Grateful for Music by Michele Forinash.

Comments to this essay:

• Lindsay Brown, December 6, 2005.
• Rebecca Shrewsbury, May 19, 2003.

Original essay: Music Therapy and Spirituality by Dorit Amir.

Comments to this essay:

• Cara Berry, December 12, 2005.

• Jim Couture, Nov. 22, 2004.

• Shabnam Cyrus, Apr. 23, 2004.

Original essay: On my Changing Relationship to Music by Michele Forinash.

Comments to this essay:

• Sarah Finger, March 29, 2007.

Original essay: On Powerlessness by Barbara Wheeler.

Comments to this essay:

• Michelle Sharpe, December 4, 2006.
• Natalie Rousseau, November 28, 2006.
• Mariya Ivannikova, December 15, 2005.

Articles Previously Discussed

A Brisbane Community Dinkum Experience - Brynjulf Stige

Arts Therapies in the Republic of Kazakhstan - Irina Rusakova & Svetlana Melik-Nubarova

Carnival and Music Therapy - Lia Rejane Mendes Barcellos

Context and Culture - Brynjulf Stige

Debating the Winds of Change in Community Music Therapy - Gary Ansdell

Developing the Use of Peaceful Nonviolent Language through Music Therapy - Edith Hillman Boxill

Dialogue About Music Therapy Theory - Rudy Garred

Exploring the Musical Relationship - Simon Procter

Expressive Music Therapy: Empowering Engaged Citizens and Communities - Rosemary Faire & Dianne Langan.

Feminist Perspectives - Susan Hadley & Jane Edwards

I am Grateful for Music - Michele Forinash

Issues in Training - Rika Ikuno

It Was a Familiar Feeling - Michele Forinash

Local Music and Recent Cultural Discussions - Barbara Wheeler

Looking Beyond the Familiar - Michele Forinash

Many voices - different songs?! - Thomas Wosch

Meaning What Exactly - Jane Edwards

Musicking in Early Intervention - Valgerdur Jonsdottir

Music Therapy Canning - Bernard M. Kigunda.

Music Therapy, Peace and War - Edith Hillman Boxill & Cella Schieffelin Roberts; Edith Hillman Boxill; Joseph Moreno

Music Therapy & Politics by Michele Forinash.

Music Therapy and Spirituality - Dorit Amir

Music Therapy: The Use of Music for Healing - André Brandalise

Music Therapy Traditions in India - Sundar Sumathy & Dr. T. V. Sairam.

New sounds of Culture - Diego Schapira

Orff Music Therapy - Melanie Voigt

Personal Ways to Music Therapy - Morva Croxson

Performance of Community - Brynjulf Stige

Reaching the Socially Isolated Person with Alzheimer's Disease through Group Music Therapy Work - Vicky Abad

Reflections on World Congresses in Music Therapy by Denise Grocke.

War and Music - Jane Edwards

The Global Community of Music Therapy - Denise Grocke

The Influence of Recommended Music Therapy Literature in the Education of Music Therapists - Denise Grocke

The Process of State Approved Certification of Music Therapist in Japan - Rika Ikuno

Thoughts on the Global Community of Music Therapy

Understanding Other Cultures - Barbara Wheeler