2nd Edition
The Handbook of Music Therapy
The Handbook of Music Therapy takes the reader on a journey through the historical and contemporary landscape of the field of music therapy, updated with the latest practical, sociocultural and theoretical perspectives and developments in music therapy.
The second edition is divided into four parts: foundation and context; music therapy practice; learning and teaching; and professional life. This includes the trajectory of music therapy as a health, social and community-based discipline in the 21st century with an evolving evidence base that also acknowledges the growing edges in the field, such as perspectives around equity, inclusion and diversity. The editors have included practice-based chapters including contributions from music therapy specialists in the fields of autism, adult learning disability, forensic psychiatry, neurology, immigration and dementia. The second edition is thoroughly updated to showcase a series of new interviews with Elders in the music therapy field, a thoroughly revised first section of the book with new materials on values and principles, updated chapters on music therapy practice, online and print resources supporting music therapy practice including musical illustrations with new and revised examples, and an extensively revised final section with new chapters on professional life and research.
Illustrated with rich case studies and practical examples throughout, The Handbook of Music Therapy covers a variety of different theoretical and philosophical perspectives. It will be invaluable to music therapists (novices, students, professionals), other arts therapists and practitioners such as speech and language therapists, psychotherapists, teachers, community musicians, psychiatrists and social workers.
Introduction to the second edition
LESLIE BUNT, SARAH HOSKYNS AND SANGEETA SWAMY
PART I
Foundations and context
1. Meetings with three music therapy Elders
LESLIE BUNT, SARAH HOSKYNS AND SANGEETA SWAMY
2. Background, context and values
SARAH HOSKYNS, SANGEETA SWAMY AND LESLIE BUNT
3. Principles, practicalities and the music therapy relationship
SANGEETA SWAMY, SARAH HOSKYNS AND LESLIE BUNT
PART II
Music therapy practice
Introduction
SARAH HOSKYNS, LESLIE BUNT AND SANGEETA SWAMY
4. Suzanna’s story: music therapy with a pre-school child
LESLIE BUNT
5. ‘Hullo object! I destroyed you!’: a tribute and extracts of writing
SANDRA BROWN (WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAULINE ETKIN)
6. Music therapy with adults with learning disabilities – a view from the United Kingdom
TESSA WATSON
7. Music therapy and neurology
CATHERINE WATKINS AND CATHY WARNER
8. Music therapy in forensic psychiatry: a case study with musical commentary
ANN SLOBODA AND STELLA COMPTON DICKINSON (WITH A MUSICAL COMMENTARY BY RICHARD BOLTON)
9. Music therapy with immigrants: a case study of Music and Imagery with ‘Mia’
SANGEETA SWAMY
10. Musical narratives in music therapy for people living with dementia
HELEN ODELL-MILLER
PART III
Learning and teaching
Introduction
SARAH HOSKYNS, LESLIE BUNT AND SANGEETA SWAMY
11. Evolving a capacity for wondering: the development of observation and listening skills
SARAH HOSKYNS
12. Beginning the music therapy journey
SARAH HOSKYNS AND LESLIE BUNT
13. Developing the musical journey: new directions in the cultural psychology of music
SANGEETA SWAMY AND SARAH HOSKYNS
PART IV
Professional life
Introduction to Part IV
LESLIE BUNT, SARAH HOSKYNS AND SANGEETA SWAMY
14. The professional music therapist
LESLIE BUNT, SARAH HOSKYNS AND SANGEETA SWAMY
15. Narratives, reflections and challenges in music therapy evaluation and research
LESLIE BUNT, SARAH HOSKYNS AND SANGEETA SWAMY
Endnotes
SANGEETA SWAMY, SARAH HOSKYNS AND LESLIE BUNT
Name index
Subject index
Biography
Leslie Bunt is Emeritus Professor in Music Therapy at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He trained with Juliette Alvin and Maggie Pickett in 1976–1977 (at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London) and from 1995–1999 in Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) with Dr Kenneth Bruscia. Leslie has practised and researched music therapy with children and adults across the lifespan, has been involved in training since 1980 and is Founding Director of The MusicSpace Trust. He was awarded the first PhD in music therapy in the UK (City, 1985). Leslie is widely published, including the second edition of Music Therapy: An Art Beyond Words (with Brynjulf Stige). He was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in June 2009 for services to music therapy. Leslie is also a freelance conductor.
Sarah Hoskyns (she/her) is a registered music therapist in New Zealand and the UK and is currently Director of the Master of Music Therapy Programme at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. She trained in London with Juliette Alvin, Leslie Bunt and Maggie Pickett (at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama) and was Head of the Music Therapy Department there from 1991–2004, when she emigrated to Aotearoa with her family. Her PhD (from Victoria and Massey Universities) explored the integration of practice and research in music therapy education. Sarah’s practitioner experience has been in the Probation Service, neurodisability and with children and families. She maintains active musical interests, playing mandolin and mbira and learning oud. Her research interests are in music therapy education and intercultural practice.
Sangeeta Swamy (she/they) is Associate Professor and Co-Chair of the Integral Counseling Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Dr Swamy trained in music therapy and transpersonal counseling psychology at Naropa University and received her PhD in expressive arts therapy from Lesley University. A licensed psychotherapist, board-certified music therapist and award-winning violinist, she currently uses Culturally Centred Music and Imagery with adolescents and adults to address ethnic identity conflict and acculturative stress and to negotiate intersectional identities. She is an experienced Vipassana meditator and specialises in culturally responsive pedagogy, scholarship and practice, bringing mindfulness and her lived, intersectional experience into the classroom and music therapy space.
“This book is a ´must read´ for music therapy students and professionals all over the world. It is innovative - written with a frame of poetic journeys through many thresholds for the music therapy profession and the single music therapist. The book covers relevant shifts of paradigms around the planet including current sociocultural issues. Interviews of three distinguished leaders in music therapy are unfolded and flow through the chapters. A richness of diverse information and relevant reflections on music therapy.” - Inge Nygaard Pedersen PhD; Associate Professor Emerita, Aalborg University, Denmark.
“This is an impressive new edition of an excellent resource for music therapy students, professionals and faculty. This revision includes expanded awareness and focus on issues of equity, diversity and inclusion. The editors are situated in who they are and how their positionality impacts the lenses they bring to this edition. Framed as a series of ‘thresholds’ this book takes us from rites of passage in training, to social, political, and historical thresholds to mythological and metaphorical thresholds. I applaud all of the work that has gone into this new edition. This will be a spectacular resource for the music therapy community for many years to come.” - Professor Michele Forinash PhD: Director, PhD Programme in Expressive Therapies, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, US.
