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Music Therapy: Intimate Notes de Mercedes Pavlicevic

Music Therapy: Intimate Notes

Autor Mercedes Pavlicevic
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 1999

Notăm cu interes calitatea acestei ediții broșate de la Jessica Kingsley Publishers, care, deși concepută ca un instrument de lucru profesional, impresionează prin claritatea tipăriturii și aerisirea paginilor, facilitând o parcurgere atentă a textului. Mercedes Pavlicevic ne propune o incursiune senzorială în universul sonor al vindecării, unde muzica devine un liant între suferință și creativitate. Subliniem modul în care autoarea reușește să transforme o bază teoretică informală într-o experiență de lectură vie, ancorată în realitățile clinice ale unor pacienți reali.

Structura volumului este riguros organizată în două părți esențiale: lucrul cu copiii și lucrul cu adulții. De la povestea micuțului Giorgios, izolat într-un salon de spital, până la experiența lui Steve, care trăiește cu HIV, cuprinsul ne ghidează printr-o progresie emoțională și tehnică remarcabilă. Colecționarii și practicienii care au apreciat Tales from the Music Therapy Room de Claire Molyneux vor găsi aici aceeași calitate a reproducerii experiențelor umane profunde, însă Music Therapy: Intimate Notes se distinge printr-o abordare mai analitică a transformărilor prin care trec înșiși terapeuții.

În contextul operei sale, acest titlu completează viziunea din Community Music Therapy și Groups in Music, unde Mercedes Pavlicevic explora dimensiunea socială a sunetului. Aici, însă, accentul se mută pe intimitatea relației duale, oferind o perspectivă mai personală și mai vulnerabilă asupra practicii clinice. Este o lucrare despre pasiune și integritate, unde muzica nu este doar un fundal, ci un personaj activ în procesul de regăsire a demnității umane.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781853026928
ISBN-10: 1853026921
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Colecția Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această carte terapeuților, studenților și tuturor celor interesați de psihologie și muzicologie. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care arta poate media comunicarea acolo unde cuvintele eșuează. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege valoarea terapeutică a creativității în fața bolilor cronice și a suferinței terminale, oferind atât inspirație clinică, cât și o perspectivă umanistă rară.

Descriere

The stories and reflections in this book describe powerful encounters between nine music therapists and their clients. These clients include four-year-old Giorgios, who is terminally ill; Wendy, a passionate, battered child who has been rejected by her mother; Olive, suffering from senile dementia; Martha, whose successful life is in crisis; and Steve, who is living with HIV/AIDS. Through music therapy the clients - and therapists - discover their creativity, and, in the process, come to terms with suffering. The stories reveal the passion and integrity of nine music therapists who themselves undergo profound changes as a result of their work.

Music Therapy - Intimate Notes is a practical and inspiring introduction to music therapy, showing its range of possibilities in various settings. The book provides a lively and informal theoretical foundation, and connects music to our intimate lives.

Recenzii

What is striking and engaging in this excellent book is that it makes us reflect on the whole business of communication - what it is for us humans to be conversational creatures. It challenges some over-easy conclusions about who is and who and isn't capable of conversing - but that, of course, is exactly what the whole work of music therapy is about. But it also shows the difficulty and importance of genuine communication: the degree to which we don't know what we mean unless and until we find an answering rhythm in a listener; the degree to which we foreclose the processes of communication because we want to spare ourselves the letting-go and taking time involved. That our humanity is realised most fully in a literal shared attunement of some kind is a more suggestive thought than volumes of ethics or metaphysics. Pavlicevic gives us a real narrative philosophy in these stories, poignantly and vividly told and sensitively and self-critically thought through.
This beautiful and moving book is a riveting collage of nine music therapy case histories, shared by a group of music therapists who were interviewed by Mercedes Pavlicevic. Pavlicevic intended these personalised interviews to be experienced as directly as possible, as oral texts in the first person. This group of sensitive therapists speaks openly, not only of their successes; they are equally candid in sharing their own frustrations and insecurities. As a result, these "stories" bring the reader much closer to the living dynamics of exchange that occurs between therapists and clients than would be possible in a more academic style of reporting. Each "story" is followed by Pavlicevic's reflections that conclude each chapter with a helpful kind of discussion and summary in response to these diverse histories. Through reading these wonderful stories, the richness of which can only be hinted at in the context of this review, we clearly see how music therapy reaches people at the deepest levels of their humanity.
This book retells the stories of nine different music therapists and their work with one or two of their clients. All the music therapists use improvisational techniques in their work, and their clients come from a wide range of backgrounds and have varying abilities and disabilities… Each story is followed by Pavlicevic's reflections which examine the story in a more clinical manner where improvisational techniques are explained and the meaning of the music is explored. However, this is no textbook with quantifiable outcomes. Rather, there is an exploration of the complex meaning of the music and the insights gained from this… As a practising music therapist who rarely uses the technique of improvisation, I started reading this book with interest, but perhaps with an underlying feeling that improvisation in music therapy would be a technique that I may never personally never grasp. This book, however, has inspired me to use improvisation more often in my own work as I feel that I have gained a greater insight after reading this book. The book in itself is easy to read, but does not trivialise the issues which are discussed. It would be a valuable text for anyone who has a basic interest in music those therapy and professionals who are already working in the field and would like to know more about other therapists experiences.
The variety of clients, environments and music therapy interventions described provide a wealth of information to the reader. Each story is individual, giving a different perspective of music therapy. The honesty and clarity of the music therapists' stories is refreshing. It is enlightening to read about the therapists' fear and to be informed about what approaches are successful and those that are less successful... This book provides a friendly introduction to music therapy. The case studies describe a variety of clients with differing needs and a mixture of approaches for consideration. The honesty of the therapists is moving and their intimate stories are enlightening. This book is an excellent way to gain a greater understanding of what music therapists can offer.

Cuprins

1. Introduction: Finding our muses. PART I: MUSIC THERAPY WITH CHILDREN. 2. Daniel: Blossoms and baptism. 3. Wendy: `I used to be crying every day...` 4. Sinead: `Here is my arm...' 5. Giorgos: Isolation in a hospital ward. PART II: MUSIC THERAPY WITH ADULTS. 6. Martha: Working with wellness. 7. Shireen: Into the void of brain injury. 8. Olive and Jim: Senility and wisdom. 9. Mirian and Seaun: Danger and inimacy in a secure unit. 10. Mary and Steve: Creativity and terminal illness. 11. Conclusion: Intimate notes. Bibliography. Index.