Tony Wigram Libri

Focusing on the practical application of receptive methods in music therapy, this book provides detailed techniques for clinical practice and research. It covers various approaches such as relaxation with music, visualization, song-lyric discussion, and vibroacoustic applications. Step-by-step protocols guide practitioners in selecting appropriate musical materials and creating the ideal environment for each technique. This resource is essential for music therapy students, educators, and professionals seeking to enhance their practice with informed, evidence-based methods.

Music therapists have a rich diversity of approaches and methods, often developed with specific relevance to meet the needs of a certain client population. This book reflects the components of such diversity, and is a comprehensive guide to accessing the ideas, theory, research results and clinical outcomes that are the foundations of this field.

Improvisation plays a key role in the toolbox of the music therapist. This guide will prove indispensable to students/teachers/therapists/musicians as a book of musical techniques and therapeutic methods. Notated examples allow readers to try out techniques as they read, with audio examples on the accompanying downloadable content.

This book provides valuable insight into the work of professional music therapists in their clinical practice. The contributors discuss work with a diverse range of clients, including those suffering from Alzheimer's, anorexia nervosa, schizophrenia, psychosis, personality disorder, anxiety and psychosomatic disorder.