Online Journal, Vol. 6, No. 3.

Editorial

Brynjulf Stige & Carolyn Kenny:

How Voices Could Promote Music Therapy Knowledge by Not Being a Research Journal

Research is integral to the development of any discipline and profession, music therapy being no exception. It may seem paradoxical then, that the vision statement of Voices could be interpreted as communicating the intention of promoting the development of music therapy knowledge by not being a research journal.

Essay

Helen Oosthuizen:

Diversity and Community: Finding and Forming a South African Music Therapy

How does music therapy engage diversity? My participation within three different South African communities offers possibilities, questions and thoughts to music therapists as we form our profession in this country and perhaps also globally.

Essay

Isabelle Mairiaux:

Thoughts on "Experience of Space in Japan." Implications for Music Therapy

This article presents thoughts on the experience of space, developed from a research study I have been doing during two years immersed in a very singular context where the familiar university environment contrasted with the - for me - completely unknown Japanese culture.

Essay

Stuart Wood:

"The Matrix": A Model of Community Music Therapy Processes

This article arises out of my research in a number of consecutive community music therapy projects, and presents the model that resulted from these research periods.

Story

Lisa Wersal:

Song and Self-Discovery: Touching the Pattern that Connects

This essay is a personal account of the power of song in health recovery and self-discovery. It follows the author's process of grappling with questions of where beauty lies and how to access it, and of the interplay and co-creation between artist, art, and perceiver.

Essay

Melina Roberts:

Transitions from Clinical Experiences to Clinical Questions and then Research: Songwriting with Bereaved Pre-adolescent Children.

The purpose of this article is to describe the author's personal transition from her clinical experiences working with bereaved children and adolescents, to clinical questions that arose during this time, and then to her current phase whereby she has commenced research to examine songwriting with bereaved children.

Theoretical Paper

Patricia Pellizzari & Alfonsina Basutto:

Music and Psyche: Towards a Theory of Individual and Relational Psycho-sonorous Profiling.

The foundations of this project were based mainly on questions about music therapeutic clinical practice, a practice whose efficacy has been demonstrated and it's expanding every day through its innovative practice-based procedures.

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International Archives

Randi Rolvsjord:

Therapy as Empowerment: Clinical and Political Implications of Empowerment Philosophy in Mental Health Practises of Music Therapy

In this article the clinical and political implications of empowerment philosophy are elaborated with music therapy practices in mental health services as the point of departure. The concept and the philosophy of empowerment are discussed through a review of literature from community psychology, sociology and feminist psychology.