Essays on analytical music therapy / by Mary Priestley.

introduction / J.W.T. Redfearn
Unit one: Fundamentals
History and definition
Getting started with the patient
The emotional spectrum
Techniques for probing the conscious
Techniques for accessing the unconscious
Techniques for ego-strengthening
Unit two: The therapeutic relationship
The therapist-patient relationship
Transference and countertransference
More on empathic countertransference
Survival
Music therapy and love
Unit three: The music
The place of structure in musical improvisation
The meaning of music
The musical response
Unit four: Theoretical concepts
Some basic concepts of Freud and Klein
Defence mechanisms and some examples
Music, Freud and the port of entry
Unit five: The therapeutic process
Times of stress and the opportunity for maturation
Analytical music therapy and "the detour through phantasy"
The inner child
Affirmations and celebrations
Case study of a depressed patient
Case study: music and the shadow
Case study: music and the listeners
Unit six: Variations
Analytical music therapy with recidivists
Preliminary music
Analytical music therapy with children
Case study: couple therapy
Intertherapy
Unit seven: Cadence
Ending the session or treatment
Postlude: the ineffable.