This is the miraculous story of a music therapist who treats terminally ill and mentally handicapped patients with the medicine of music.
Which cultures have used music therapy? What were their aims and techniques, and how much continuity is there between ancient, medieval and modern practice? These are the questions addressed by the essays in this volume.
J. M. Janzen, Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa (Berkeley, Los Angeles and Oxford, 1992); M. Roseman, Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine (Berkeley and Los Angeles, ...
This book contains essays which explore the relationship of music and medicine. Problems involved in the cooperation of these fields are discussed and solutions are presented.
Sound healing therapy uses aspects of music to improve physical and emotional health and well-being. The book presents a variety of approaches useful to create recommendation systems in healthcare, music, and in music therapy.
Amy Robertson has taken her experience of starting a music therapy program from scratch at the largest admitting hospital in America and provided step-by-step instructions on how others can do the same.
Early 19th century German immigrant physicians in eastern Pennsylvania brought the mild power of a new European medical system, homeopathy, to the USA.
Joseph Campbell's mythic journey of the hero (Campbell, 2008) parallels the challenges and rewards in our companions' travels through the medical system. Campbell's hero is an archetype for the individual who resides in the ordinary ...
Roseman shows just how central musical ideas and practices are to a way of knowing and imagining the world, to a way of transforming ordinary experiences, and to penetrating belief systems more broadly."—Steven Feld, University of Texas, ...
This book is about how sacred sound works as therapy from a sound therapist who has successfully treated a wide range of clients for over twenty years. This book is very experiential.