Integrative health through music therapy : accompanying the journey from illness to wellness / Suzanne B. Hanser.

  • Hanser, Suzanne B.
Date:
[2016]
  • Books

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Description

Recent music therapy advances and evidence-based practices have earned respect within the medical sciences and garnered popularity amongst users and practitioners. While integrative medicine treats the whole patient with ayurvedic and allopathic medicine, music therapy provides a safe and effective way of managing stress, pain, unpleasant symptoms, response to illness, and treatment side effects, and has been proven to enhance patients' quality of life and general wellbeing. Exploring the ways in which these methods have been practiced throughout history, the author takes readers on a journey from illness to wellness, and shows how this can be guided through music. The book instructs music therapists and other practitioners in the use of specific techniques, providing examples of clinical applications. It includes activities that prepare a music therapist physically, emotionally and musically for this journey with another, and provides case studies to explore the difficulties that might arise.

Publication/Creation

London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

Physical description

xxi, 285 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- In sickness and in health -- Integration: medicine, health, and empowerment -- Holistic healing -- Roots of healing music -- Tuning in: the music therapist's journey -- Stepping into the journey with your companion -- Orienting to the journey: the mythic way -- The journey from illness to wellness -- The way to comfort -- The way to awaken -- The way to the musical self -- The way to cope -- Conclusion: the way to peace -- References -- Index.

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    Medical Collection
    WB550 2016H24i
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781137384768