ABSTRACT

This is the first comprehensive overview of the present state of research in art therapy and music therapy in the UK. It challenges assumptions about research in these areas, and makes use of research models from art history and music analysis as well as the more orthodox psychological and medical models used in clinical work. Informative and reassuring for those interested in undertaking research, the book gives lively accounts of the personal process of the art therapy and music therapy researcher. It presents the reader with many original ideas and strategies, and will be an invaluable reference book for practitioners and students of art therapy and music therapy, as well as for health professionals who work with them.

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

Juxtapositions in art therapy and music therapy research

part I|63 pages

The practice of research

chapter Chapter 1|14 pages

Researching the esoteric

Art therapy research

chapter Chapter 2|16 pages

The analysis of therapeutic improvisatory music

chapter Chapter 3|15 pages

Music and emotion

Aspects of music therapy research

chapter Chapter 4|16 pages

Changes in art therapy groups

part II|100 pages

Clinical work

chapter Chapter 7|21 pages

Making sense of marking space

Researching art therapy with people who have severe learning difficulties

chapter Chapter 8|14 pages

Observing offenders

The use of simple rating scales to assess changes in activity during group music therapy

chapter Chapter 9|12 pages

The sound-world of speech- and language-impaired children

The story of a current music therapy research project

part III|58 pages

Context and culture

chapter Chapter 11|21 pages

Research and the particular

Epistemology in art and psychotherapy

chapter Chapter 12|17 pages

‘The biter bit’

Subjective features of research in art and therapy

chapter Chapter 13|18 pages

The development of art therapy in Bulgaria

Infiltrating the system