Table of Contents -- Preface -- Case Examples of the Use of Songs in Psychotherapy -- INTRODUCTION Songs in Psychotherapy -- CASE ONE When The Psyche Sings: Transference And Countertransference In Improvised Singing With Individual Adults -- CASE TWO Composition, Improvisation and Poetry in the Psychiatric Treatment of a Forensic Patient -- CASE THREE Individual Music Therapy for an Adolescent with Borderline Personality Disorder: An Object Relations Approach -- CASE FOUR Original Song Drawings in the Treatment Of A Developmentally Disabled, Autistic Young Man -- CASE FIVE Improvised Songs Stories in the Treatment of a Thirteen-Year-Old Sexually Abused Girl from the Xhosa Tribe in South Africa -- CASE SIX Songs of Faith in End of Life Care -- CASE SEVEN Singing in the Recovery Model with a Chronic Mentally Ill Offender -- CASE EIGHT Our Path to Peace: Songwriting-Based Brief Music Therapy with Bereaved Adolescents -- CASE NINE Singing My Way Through the Cancer, the Darkness, and the Fear -- CASE TEN "Do I Dare Imagine?" A Microanalysis of a Clinically Improvised Song -- CASE ELEVEN Music Therapy at the End of a Life -- CASE TWELVE Just Don't Do It: A Group's Micro Journey into Music and Life1 -- CASE THIRTEEN The Healing Function of Improvised Songs in Music Therapy with a Child Survivor of Early Trauma and Sexual Abuse* -- CASE THIRTEEN The Song-Writing Process: A Woman's Struggle Against Depression and Suicide -- CASE FIFTEEN Four Case Examples Sylka Uhlig -- CASE FIFTEEN Songs In Palliative Care: A Spouse's Last Gift.