Open discussions. Comments on
Clinical Practice
Original essay: Building the First Music Therapy Programme...: A Reflection on New Music Therapy in New Place by Ludwika Konieczna.
Comments to this essay:
- April 14, 2010: Trenton Barrick
Original essay: Dangerous Liaisons: Group Work for Adolescent Girls who have Anorexia Nervosa by Kathrina McFerran.
Comments to this essay:
- December 14, 2009: Naomi Edelman
- December 22, 2008: Wen-Tzu Chang
- December 10, 2007: Wrenn Compere
- November 30, 2006: Amy Adams
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:
- Rebecca Soderberg, May 11, 2010.
- Lia Rejane Mendes Barcellos, March 15, 2006.
Original essay: First Love – An Idealized Object in Music Therapy by Jinah Kim.
Comments to this essay:
- March 22, 2010: Response by Sarah Vick to "First Love..." by Jinah Kim
Original essay: Music Therapy: The Use of Music for Healing by André Brandalise
Comments to this essay:
- January, 11, 2010: Response to "Music Therapy: The Use of Music for Healing Music Centered Music Therapy Studies" by Monika Staszkiewicz.
- December, 30, 2004: Response to "Music Therapy: The Use of Music for Healing Music Centered Music Therapy Studies" by Laura Lynch.
Original essay: Music Therapy with Traumatized Refugees in a Clinical Setting by Jaap Orth
Comments to this essay:
- Stephen Baker, March 22, 2010.
- Lauren Roberts, December 22, 2008.
- Kathy Jo Gutgsell, December 1, 2005.
Original essay: Opening Channels of Communication by Clarice Moura Costa
Comments to this essay:
- June 14, 2010: Response to “Opening Channels of Communication”, by Nancy Swanson
- January 12, 2010: Response to “Opening Channels of Communication”, by Laura Campbell
Original essay: Personal Experiences of Non-verbal Communication Through Musical Dialogue (Clinical Improvisation) by Sung-Yong Shim.
Comments to this essay:
- January 11, 2010: Response to "Personal Experiences of Non-verbal Communication ...", by Wenjia Zhai
- December 14, 2009: Response to "Personal Experiences of Non-verbal Communication ...", by Esther Kim
- December 3, 2008: Response to "Personal Experiences of Non-verbal Communication through Musical Dialogue", by Hyun Young Kim
Original essay: Reaching the Socially Isolated Person with Alzheimer's Disease Through Group Music Therapy by Vicky Abad.
Comments to this essay:
- January 26, 2010: Response to "Reaching the Socially Isolated Person with Alzheimer's Disease Through Group Music Therapy" by Laura Micheli.
- Nov 21, 2007: Response to "Reaching the Socially Isolated Person with Alzheimer's Disease Through Group Music Therapy" by Justin Schrum.
- May 19, 2003: Response to "Reaching the Socially Isolated Person with Alzheimer's Disease through Group Music Therapy Work" by Devon Miller.
Original essay: Some Ideas About Music Therapy for the Elderly by Kimmo Lehtonen.
Comments to this essay:
- Ya-Tzu Liu, January 26, 2010.
- RoseAnn Cyr, December 4, 2007.
Original essay: The Last Song by Yumiko Sato.
Comments to this essay:
- January 26, 2010: Response to "The Last Song" by Kathy McCann
Original essay: Voice Forum: The Voice as Primary Instrument in Music Therapy by Sylka Uhlig.
Comments to this essay:
- April 14, 2010: Bethany Koch
- December 14, 2009: Adrienne Sumpter
Original essay: Why Provide Music Therapy in the Community for Adults With Mental Health Problems? by Helen Odell-Miller.
Comments to this essay:
- January 12, 2010: Response to "Why Provide Music Therapy ...", by Jeffrey Clark
- December 04, 2006: Response to "Why Provide Music Therapy in the Community for Adults With Mental Health Problems?", by Brian Johnson
Communicating About Music Therapy
Original essay: Aesthetic Experience and Transformation in Music Therapy by Giorgos Tsiris.
Comments to this essay:
- April 14, 2010: Rachelle Norman
Original essay: E-Professionalism by Joke Bradt .
Comments to this essay:
- August 31, 2010: Response to "E-Professionalism" by Valerie Kocel
- March 22, 2010: Response to "E-Professionalism" by Armistead Grandstaff
- March 22, 2010: Response to "E-Professionalism" by John Lawrence
- February 08, 2010: Response to "E-Professionalism" by John Lawrence
- February 08, 2010: Response to "E-Professionalism" by Katrina McFerran
Original essay: Voices: Continuing the Celebration by Carolyn Kenny.
Comments to this essay:
- March 22, 2010: Congratulations and Comments by John Lawrence
Community Music Therapy
Music Therapy and Culture
Original essay: Addressing Issues of Ethnicity and Identity in Palliative Care Through Music Therapy Practice by Lucy C. Forrest.
Comments to this essay:
- January 26, 2010: Response to "Addressing Issues of Ethnicity and Identity in Palliative Care Through Music Therapy Practice" by Kristen D., Macleod
Original essay: Hard and Heavy Music: Can It Make a Difference in the Young Cancer Patients’ Life? by Fereshteh Ahmadi.
Comments to this essay:
- January 12, 2010: Response to "Hard and Heavy Music: Can It Make a Difference in the Young Cancer Patients’ Life?" by Armistead Grandstaff
Original essay: How Gamelan Music Has Influenced Me as a Music Therapist – A Personal Account by Helen Loth.
Comments to this essay:
- December 3, 2008: Response to How Gamelan has influenced me as a Music Therapist, by Julianne Parolisi
- December 5, 2007: Response to How Gamelan has influenced me as a Music Therapist, by Merritt Navazio
- Nov 23, 2006: Response to How Gamelan has influenced me as a Music Therapist, by Maeve Rigney
Original essay: Internationalization vs. Globalization of Music Therapy by Hyun Ju Chong.
Comments to this essay:
- May 12, 2010: John Lawrence
Original essay: Music Therapy in Honduras by Teresa Devlin.
Comments to this essay:
- January 11, 2010: Response to "Music Therapy in Honduras", by Laura Mesén Méndez
- January 12, 2010: Response to Music Therapy in Ireland by Katie Hogan
- March 22, 2010: Response by Katelyn Stephens to Music Therapy in Kenya by Bernard M. Kigunda
- January 26, 2010: Response to "Why Does Music Make People so Cross?", by Laura Francis
- December 3, 2008: Response to "Why Does Music Make People so Cross?", by Melanie Lazar
Original essay: Music Therapy in Ireland by Jane Edwards.
Comments to this essay:
Original essay: Music Therapy in Kenya by Bernard M. Kigunda.
Comments to this essay:
Original essay: Music Therapy with Traumatized Refugees in a Clinical Setting by Jaap Orth
Comments to this essay:
Original essay: Why Does Music Make People so Cross? by Simon Frith.
Comments to this essay:
Music Therapy Research
Original essay: Moving Toward Incorporation a Definition of the Quality of Life in the Practice of Music Therapy by Eunmi Emily Kwak.
Comments to this essay:
- August 31, 2010: Response to "Moving Toward Incorporation a Definition of the Quality of Life" by Mary Rainey Perry
Music Therapy Training
Personal Perspectives on Music Therapy
Original essay: How Do We Nurture Ourselves? by Dorit Amir.
Comments to this essay:
Marcus Lawrence Soifer, January 11, 2010.
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: Lullabies for a Nation by Helen Oosthuizen.
Comments to this essay:
- January 11, 2010: Response to “Lullabies for a Nation”, by Miquel Garland
Original essay: More Thoughts About Identity by Daphne Rickson.
Comments to this essay:
- May 11, 2010: Louis Burghard
Original essay: Music Therapist's Therapeutic Relationship with Music by Hyun Ju Chong.
Comments to this essay:
- May 11, 2010: Rachel Maurer
- January 26, 2010: Shantaya Fonseca
- April 27, 2008: Debra Jelinek Gombert
- December 22, 2008: Erin Murphy
- March 26, 2008: Ludwika Konieczna
Original essay: On my Changing Relationship to Music by Michele Forinash.
Comments to this essay:
- Romy Ikauniks, March 22, 2010.
- Kerry Leavell, November 27, 2008.
Original essay: On Powerlessness by Barbara Wheeler.
Comments to this essay:
- Felicia L. Forney, January 12, 2010.
- Armistead Grandstaff, August 26, 2009.
- Calista Lauren, November 27, 2008.
- Merritt Navazio, March 11, 2008.
- Nicole Kanelos, December 4, 2007.
- Michelle Sharpe, December 4, 2006.
- Natalie Rousseau, November 28, 2006.
- Mariya Ivannikova, December 15, 2005.
Original essay: Reflections on Being a Music Therapist and a Gay Man by Colin Lee .
Comments to this essay:
- May 13, 2009: Response to "Reflections on Being a Music Therapist and a Gay Man" by Justine Hancock-Marsh
- February 11, 2009: Response to "Reflections on Being a Music Therapist and a Gay Man" by Bill White
- November 27, 2008: Response to "Reflections on Being a Music Therapist and a Gay Man" by Laurie Kagetsu
Original essay: So Music Therapists.... How Good is Your Juggling? by Sarah Hoskyns.
Comments to this essay:
- March 22, 2010: Response by Tara Whitworth to "so music Therapist... How good is your juggling?" by Sarah Hoskyns
Original essay: Sorry for the Silence: A Contribution From Feminist Theory to the Discourse(s) Within Music Therapy by Susan Hadley & Jane Edwards.
Comments to this essay:
- March 30, 2009: Alane Hart
- December, 20, 2004: Mechelle Chestnut
Original essay: Spiritual Music Therapy: Opening Ourselves to the Mysterious Qualities of Music Therapy by Dorit Amir.
Comments to this essay:
December 22, 2008: William L. Rollins.
December 12, 2005: Cara Berry.
Nov. 22, 2004: Jim Couture.
Apr. 23, 2004: Shabnam Cyrus.
December 12, 2002: David Aldridge.
Nov. 28, 2002: Dorit Amir.
Nov. 21, 2002: Kristen M. Cole.
Articles Previously Discussed
A Brisbane Community Dinkum Experience - Brynjulf Stige
A Consumer- Directed and Partnered Community Mental Health Music Therapy Program by Sue Baines.
A Collaboration Between Music Therapy and Speech Pathology in a Paediatric Rehabilitation..." by Maggie Leung.
Action Research and Music Therapy - Meagan Hunt.
Allowing Oneself to Question, Communicating It to Others by Rika Ikuno.
Another Ripple in the Ongoing evolution of Music Therapy by Katrina McFerran.
A portrait of music therapist – the gravity to keep the ordinary by Rika Ikuno.
Arts Therapies in the Republic of Kazakhstan - Irina Rusakova & Svetlana Melik-Nubarova
Asking Questions in Africa by Andeline Dos Santos.
Being Who You Aren't; Doing What You Can't - Gary Ansdell.
Bridging Music and Psychoanalytic Therapy by Deborah Salmon.
Carnival and Music Therapy - Lia Rejane Mendes Barcellos
Choices - Barbara Wheeler.
Community Music Therapy & The Winds of Change by Gary Ansdell.
Community Music Therapy for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities - Sandra L. Curtis & Chesley Sigmon Mercado.
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
Development of a Music Therapy Service in an Australian Public Rehabilitation Hospital - Jeanette Tamplin.
Dialogue About Music Therapy Theory - Rudy Garred
Drumming in the Rain by Helen Oosthuizen.
Exploring the Musical Relationship - Simon Procter
Expressive Music Therapy: Empowering Engaged Citizens and Communities - Rosemary Faire & Dianne Langan.
Familiarity, Comfortableness and Predictability of Song as "Holding Environment" for Mothers of Premature Babies - Lia Rejane Mendes Barcellos
Feminist Perspectives - Susan Hadley & Jane Edwards
How Gamelan Music Has Influenced Me as a Music Therapist – A Personal Account by Helen Loth.
How Do We Nurture Ourselves? - Dorit Amir.
I am Grateful for Music - Michele Forinash
Integrating Music, Language and the Voice in Music Therapy by Joanne Loewy.
Intentional Leadership: Growth, Empowerment and High-Heeled Shoes - Andeline Dos Santos.
Issues in Training - Rika Ikuno
It Was a Familiar Feeling - Michele Forinash
Journeying with Olivia: Bricolage as a Framework for Understanding Music Therapy in Paediatric Oncology by Beth Dun
Local Music and Recent Cultural Discussions - Barbara Wheeler
Looking Beyond the Familiar - Michele Forinash
Lose Yourself in the Music, the Moment, Yo! - Sunelle Fouché and Kerryn Torrance.
Many voices - different songs?! - Thomas Wosch
Making Space for Silence by Leslie Bunt.
Meaning What Exactly - Jane Edwards
More Music Therapy, More Music Therapists, More Health by Diego Schapira.
Music as an "Expressive" Therapy by Rika Ikuno.
Musicking in Early Intervention - Valgerdur Jonsdottir
Music, Music Therapy, Musical Encounters and World Peace by Carolyn Kenny.
Music Psychotherapy and Community Music Therapy - Alan Turry.
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 - Michele Forinash.
Music Therapy and Spirituality - Dorit Amir
Music Therapy Community Centres - Thomas Wosch.
Music Therapy in the East of Europe Mariya Ivannikova.
Music Therapy in Parkinson’s Disease by Sergio Hazard
Music Therapy: The Use of Music for Healing - André Brandalise
Music Therapy Through Irish Eyes: A Student Therapist’s Experience of Irish Traditional Music by Ruth Armstrong.
Music Therapy Traditions in India - Sundar Sumathy & Dr. T. V. Sairam.
Music Therapy with Traumatized Refugees in a Clinical Setting - Jaap Orth.
New sounds of Culture - Diego Schapira
On Becoming a Music Therapist by Josée Préfontaine.
On my Changing Relationship to Music - Michele Forinash.
On History by Michele Forinash/Loss of Friends by Carolyn Kenny.
Orff Music Therapy by Melanie Voigt
Our Language and Our Attitudes - Barbara Wheeler.
Parents' Voices Supporting Music Therapy within Pediatric Palliative Care by Kathryn Lindenfelser.
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
Reactions and Responses from the Music Therapy Community to the Growth of Computers and Technology - Elaine Streeter.
Reflections on a First Time Experience With a Coma Patient - Nicholas N. Kofie.
Reflections on Being a Music Therapist and a Gay Man by Colin Lee .
Reflections on World Congresses in Music Therapy - Denise Grocke.
Soul Therapy by Chafic Karam.
Sorry for the Silence: A Contribution From Feminist Theory to the Discourse(s) Within Music Therapy by Susan Hadley & Jane Edwards.
Spiritual Music Therapy: Opening Ourselves to the Mysterious Qualities of Music Therapy by Dorit Amir.
The Global Community of Music Therapy - Denise Grocke
The Importance of Aesthetics as a Dimension in Music Therapy Activity by Carl Bergstroem-Nielsen.
The Influence of Recommended Music Therapy Literature in the Education of Music Therapists - Denise Grocke
The Ontology of Music in Music Therapy by Rudy Garred.
Therapeutic Choir - A Music Therapist Looks at the New Millenium Elderly by Claudia Regina de Oliveira Zanini & Eliane Leao
The World Is One Country - Jane Edwards
The Individual Kernel of CMT - Thomas Wosch
The Influence of the Creative Class - Carolyn Kenny.
The Marriage of Music and Narrative: Explorations in Art, Therapy, and Research by Lillian Eyre
The Process of State Approved Certification of Music Therapist in Japan - Rika Ikuno
The Role of Performance in Music-Making" Jon Hawkes interviewed by Lucy O'Grady.
The Song as an Anchor - Marcia Cirigliano
The Use of "First Person" Writing Style - Dorit Amir.
The World Is One Country - Jane Edwards.
Thoughts on "Experience of Space in Japan." Implications for Music Therapy - Isabelle Mairiaux.
Thoughts on the Global Community of Music Therapy
Thresholds Between Practice and Research - Jane Edwards.
Understanding Other Cultures - Barbara Wheeler
Under the Voice of the Other by Brynjulf Stige.
Update of Music Therapy in the Republic of Korea - Jinah Kim.
War and Music - Jane Edwards
What "Makes" a Music Therapist? by Michele Forinash.
Why Provide Music Therapy in the Community for Adults With Mental Health Problems? - Helen Odell-Miller
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