1st Edition
Music Therapy and Adoption Co-creating Therapy Centered on Adoptee Lived Experience
Chapter One: Continued Development of An Adoption-Specific Music Therapy
Chapter Two: The Modality: Psychoanalytic Adoption Music Therapy
Chapter Three: Literature, Practice and Research Informing an Approach.
Chapter Four: Intersubjectivity and The Sharing of Lived Experience In Adoption Music Therapy.
Chapter Five: Psychoanalytic Music Therapy: Adoption Theme One; On Feeling Dropped and Dropping Things.
Chapter Six: Adoption Theme Two; Lullabies and Their Meaning for Adoptees
Chapter Seven: Adoption Themes Three and Four; Hide and Seek + The Baby with The Broken Head. Unrepresented Early Experience Enacted with Metaphor and Stories
Chapter Eight: Making Sense from Case Studies; Building ‘Ground Up’ Theory for Adoption Specific Music Therapy.
Chapter Nine: Conclusions, Key Findings from Therapeutic Work and Research: And A Message for Future Adoption Specific Music Therapy
Index
Biography
Joy Gravestock is a freelance music therapist working with child adoptees, funded by the Adoption Support Fund and adult members of the adoption community. Her adoption specific approach in music therapy draws upon psychoanalytic, relational, attachment and trauma informed theories and modalities. Her PhD highlighted attunement within adoptive families. She is currently training to be an attachment psychotherapist.
‘Joy Gravestock’s work remains a guiding star for music therapists engaging with the adoption community. She writes with a clarity that belies the depth of thought, expertly expanding her psychoanalytic foundations to draw on existential philosophy and her own lived experience as an adoptee.’
Ian Grundy, Lead Creative Arts Therapist, Coram Creative Therapy London
‘This book is essential reading for all of us involved in the experience of the adoptee and adoption – whether music or arts therapists, talking therapists, or adoptees. The depth of exploration in Joy Gravestock's tenderly-held single case studies brings her cross-modality formulations on clinical practice off the page, giving us a visceral sense of the live relationship and play between therapist and client.’
Serena Jenks, Attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor to Music Therapists
‘This book will not only be of value to music therapists working with adoptees, but to any practitioners who want to understand more about the relevance of psychoanalytic concepts in a relational, improvisational approach.’
Dr Luke Annesley, Course Lead Music Therapy MA, University of Western England
