Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- To the Authors -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Unit One: Introduction -- The Fundamentals of Music Therapy Practice -- By Kenneth E. Bruscia -- Unit Two: Case Studies With Children -- 1. Like Singing With A Bird: Improvisational Music Therapy With A Blind Four-Year-Old -- 2. The Use of Piano Improvisation In Developing Interaction And Participation in a Blind Boy with Behavioral Disturbances -- 3. Music Therapy For A Girl With Rett's Syndrome: Balancing Structure and Freedom -- 4. Self-Communications In Creative Music Therapy -- 5. Off-Beat Music Therapy: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Autism -- 6. The Boy That Nobody Wanted: Creative Experiences For A Boy With Severe Emotional Problems -- 7. Creative Fantasy, Music And Lyric Improvisation With A Gifted Acting-Out Boy -- 8. Music Therapy In Working Through A Preschooler's Grief: Expressing Rage and Confusion -- 9. Improvisation And Play In The Therapeutic Engagement Of A Five-Year-Old Boy With Physical and Interpersonal Problems -- 10. The Use Of Latin Music, Puppetry, And Visualization In Reducing The Physical And Emotional Pain Of A Child With Severe Burns -- 11. Preverbal Communication Through Music To Overcome A Child's Language Disorder -- 12. Group Music Therapy With A Classroom Of 6-8 Year-Old Hyperactive-Learning Disabled Children -- 13. The Effect of Programmed Pitch Practice and Private Instruction On The Vocal Reproduction Accuracy Of Hearing Impaired Children: Two Case Studies -- Unit Three: Case Studies With Adolescents -- 14. Improvised Song Stories In The Treatment Of A 13-Year-Old Sexually Abused Girl From The Xhosa Tribe In South Africa -- 15. All Her Yesterdays: An Adolescent's Search For A Better Today Through Music.

16. Creative Music Therapy In Bringing Order, Change And Communicativeness To The Life Of A Brain-Injured Adolescent -- 17. Individual Music Therapy For An Adolescent With Borderline Personality Disorder: An Object Relations Approach -- Unit Four: Case Studies With Adults -- 18. Mia's Fourteenth--The Symphony of Fate: Psychodynamic Improvisation Therapy With A Music Therapy Student In Training -- 19. The Musical Mirror: Music Therapy For The Narcissistically Injured -- 20. Guided Imagery And Music (GIM): Healing The Wounded Healer -- 21. Emergence Of The Adult Self In Guided Imagery And Music (GIM) Therapy -- 22. The Use Of Musical Space With An Adult In Psychotherapy -- 23. Improvisation And Guided Imagery And Music (GIM) With A Physically Disabled Woman: A Gestalt Approach -- Unit Five: Case Studies With Adults in Psychiatric Treatment -- 24. Original Song Drawings In The Treatment Of A Developmentally Disabled, Autistic Adult -- 25. Music Therapy For A Nonverbal Autistic Adult -- 26. Musical Improvisation In The Treatment Of A Man With Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder -- 27. Integrated Music Therapy With A Schizophrenic Woman -- 28. Group Improvisation Therapy: The Experience Of One Man With Schizophrenia -- 29. Composition, Improvisation and Poetry In The Psychiatric Treatment Of A Forensic Patient -- 30. Group Improvisation Therapy For A Resistant Woman With Bipolar Disorder - Manic -- 31. Group Music Therapy In Acute Psychiatric Care: The Treatment Of A Depressed Woman Following Neurological Trauma -- 32. The Song-Writing Process: A Woman's Struggle Against Depression And Suicide -- 33. Guided Imagery And Music (GIM) With A Dually Diagnosed Woman Having Multiple Addictions -- 34. Group Music Therapy For Women With Multiple Personalities -- Unit Six: Case Studies With Adults In Medical Treatment -- 35. Music Therapy At Childbirth.

36. Reclaiming A Positive Identity: Music Therapy In The Aftermath Of A Stroke -- 37. Rehabilitation of Piano Performance Skills Following A Left Cerebral Vascular Accident -- 38. Music Therapy For A Severely Regressed Person With A Probable Diagnosis Of Alzheimer's Disease -- 39. Embracing Life With AIDS: Psychotherapy Through Guided Imagery And Music (GIM) -- 40. Songs In Palliative Care: A Spouse's Last Gift -- 41. Life Review With A Palliative Care Patient -- 42. Music Therapy At The End Of A Life -- Appendices -- A. Clinical Conditions Addressed in Case Studies -- B. Clinical Settings of Case Studies -- C. Music Therapy Methods Used in Case Studies -- D. Theoretical Orientations in Case Studies.