Voices Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1.

Released March 1, 2009

Editorial

Brynjulf Stige:

Substantive Content in Context

Like in any other journal, the editors of Voices rejoice when the number of submitted articles rises. This suggests that more content and more substantive content could be made available for our readers. Unlike some other journals, Voices journal links the idea of substantive content to the idea of situatedness.

Theoretical Article

André Brandalise:

Music-centered Music Therapy: Contributions for the Present and Future of Music Therapy

This article aims to make a reflection about the music-centered Music Therapy movement as one of the possibilities for the present and future of Music Therapy in Brazil and in the world.

Musicoterapia Músico-centrada: Contribuições para o Presente e o Futuro da Musicoterapia Lea mas

Article

Christobel C. Moore & Felicity A. Baker:

Musical Preferences of Argentines Living in Australia: Implications for Music Therapy Clinical Practice

This article provides an overview of the elements that impact on the cultural identity of Argentines in Australia, their relationship to music and the implications for music therapy clinical practice.

Theoretical Article

Clarice Moura Costa:

Opening Channels of Communication

Psychosis, as described through a psychodynamic perspective, is conceptualized as an attempt to deny the enveloping reality to avoid contact with the other. Music therapy is a way to break this barrier of non-communication raised by the patients.

Perspective on Practice

Rii Numata:

EinScream!: Possibilities of New Musical Ideas to Form a Community

This paper illustrates a place where plural individual participants with different cultural resources meet and communicate with each other to create improvisational music.

Theoretical Article

Dorita S. Berger:

On Developing Music Therapy Goals and Objectives

In order to address the treatment of deficits through music therapy interventions, clinicians who assess human behaviors from a physiological perspective can target treatment goals and objectives to address more than just the symptoms of diagnoses.

Report

Daphne Rickson:

Researching Ones Own Clinical Practice: Managing Multiple Roles in an Action Research Project

Action Research is a useful approach for practitioners who want to develop or improve on their everyday activity, while simultaneously contributing to a scientific body of knowledge...

Report

Sylka Uhlig:

Voice Forum: The Voice as Primary Instrument in Music Therapy

The human voice is our earliest, most unique and most natural instrument for primary expression and communication in every culture. People all over the world express themselves primarily through their voice.

Introduction

M. Louise Cadrin:

Introduction to the Series of Interviews about Music Music Therapy in Canada

Music therapy has been a part of the Canadian landscape since the mid-1950s. Key figures have shaped and molded the history of music therapy in Canada.

Interview

Jennifer Buchanan:

Fran Herman, Music Therapist in Canada for over 50 years

For over 50 years, Fran Herman has used her special talents as a music therapist, advocate, artist and leader to change the lives of many people.

Introduction

Rolando Benenzon:

The First Nine World Congresses of Music Therapy

My considerations about the first nine world congresses of music therapy in which I had the opportunity to take part.

Interview

Gabriela Wagner interviewed by Barbara Wheeler:

2nd World Congress of Music Therapy , Buenos Aires, 1976

Dr. Rolando Benenzon announced the World Congress to be organized in Buenos Aires when I was in the first year of the Music Therapy Program at the Medical School. Music therapy was a developing discipline concentrated in only one university with around 40 students and around 15 graduates supported by a group of professionals from different areas, interested in music therapy.

Interview

Kathryn Stevenson:

Millicent McIvor

It is a great pleasure to interview Millicent McIvor. She is an amazing woman who has given so much for the society's members, to both individuals and to the whole body.

Interview

Aurelio interviewed by Sumathy Sundar:

The Cultural Uniqueness of Indian Music Therapy: An Eastern and a Western Voice

India is known for its rich cultural heritage and traditions. If music therapy in India is to be understood one has to understand the science and sound of music which was studied so intricately and understood so deeply in ancient India.

Interview

Leslie Bunt:

Voices Welcomes Interviews

At the World Congress in Buenos Aires last July we announced the widening scope to the range of interviews we wish to include in Voices.

International Archives

M. Louise Cadrin:

Dying Well: The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music at End of Life

This case study demonstrates the role of The Bonny Method in addressing psychosocial, spiritual, and existential issues particular to end of life, and in the subsequent peaceful death experience of a 47 year old palliative cancer patient.