Music Therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury

Simon Gilbertson and David Aldridge

ISBN 10: 1843106655 / ISBN 13: 9781843106654

Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Music Therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843106655
• ISBN 13: 9781843106654
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Used; Very Good

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Synopsis

Musical improvisation is an increasingly recognised rehabilitative therapy for people who have experienced traumatic brain injury initially thought to be 'unreachable' or 'non-responsive'.

Music Therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury demonstrates how music therapy can be used to attend to the holistic, rather than purely functional, needs of people affected by severe head trauma. Divided into three parts, the first section provides an introduction to the effects brain injury has on a person's livelihood. The second is a comprehensive review of available literature on the use of music therapy in the neurorehabilitative setting. The final section examines three case studies designed according to 'therapeutic narrative analysis', an adaptive research method that uses interviewing and video, which focuses on the unique relationship between the professional and the patient.

This book will give clinicians key notes for practice and a vision of the integral role music therapy can have in the successful rehabilitation from brain injury.

About the Author

Simon Gilbertson is a trained musician and music therapist. He is a lecturer in music therapy at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland, and was previously Head of Music Therapy at the Klinik Holthausen in Germany. After gaining his doctorate at David Aldridge's Chair for Qualitative Research in Medicine at the University Witten Herdecke he went to work with David at the Nordoff-Robbins Centre in Witten, Germany.