The Handbook of Music Therapy

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.