Although listening to music in music therapy has a much longer tradition than active music therapy, receptive music therapy in European countries has been strongly neglected for many years. The German edition of this book, published in 2004, is the first to present the most important methods of receptive music therapy in one volume. This volume presents the English edition. 18 well-known European authors present forms of receptive music therapy, which focus on both theoretical and practical aspects. The spectrum of methods and clinical applications is broad: receptive music therapy as or in psychotherapy (f. ex. Guided Imagery and Music, Regulative Music Therapy, Integrative Music Therapy), as Sound Guided Trance, In Depth Relaxation Therapy, in Anthroposophic Music Therapy, etc. Various case studies of adolescent and adult patients illustrate how to work in different clinical contexts. Theoretical questions are discussed concerning topics such as music and (alterated states of) consciousness, music and emotion, music and imagery, music and developmental relationships and music and earliest childhood. This volume provides an extensive overview of Receptive Music Therapy in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Luxembourg.

Im Gegensatz zur aktiven Musiktherapie, bei der Patienten selbst auf Instrumenten spielen, wurde die rezeptive Musiktherapie lange vernachlässigt. Zum ersten Mal stellen zwanzig namhafte Autoren verschiedene Formen rezeptiver Musiktherapie in Theorie und Praxis vor. Das Spektrum der methodischen Ansätze rezeptiver Musiktherapie und ihrer Anwendungsbereiche ist breit: funktionale Entspannungsarbeit mit Hilfe von Musik, tiefenpsychologisch fundierte imaginative Psychotherapieansätze mit und durch Musik und der Einsatz von Musik in der frühesten Lebenszeit. Zahlreiche Fallbeispiele aus der Behandlung psychischer, sozialer und organischer Erkrankungen runden den Band ab.

Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) - Concepts and clinical Applications, ed. by Isabelle Frohne-Hagemann deals with the more recent developments in Germany of this psycho- and music therapeutic method developed by Helen Bonny in the USA. Different authors reflect in 14 chapters on theoretical and practical positions exemplifying them with the help of case studies and showing by that the further development of GIM since its beginnings.

“Windows to music therapy” open a view on a broad variety of fundamental music therapy questions. The spectrum ranges from metatheoretical reflections to specific indication and method oriented applications in clinical and socio-therapeutic fields of music therapy. 21 Articles and lectures published during the last 25 years show the development of music therapy as scientific discipline.

Mit ihrem grundlegenden Werk schließen die Autoren theoretisch zu anderen Verfahren auf und bieten dem Praktiker ein Manual für die tägliche Arbeit.