Preface Kenneth E. Bruscia -- Table of Contents -- Audio Excerpts -- INTRODUCTION An Overview of Improvisational Music Therapy Kenneth E. Bruscia -- CASE ONE Audrey Is Dancing a Song: Work, Myth, and Singing in Self-Actualization Kenneth Aigen (Case Material of Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins) -- CASE TWO Good-bye, Indu: The Aesthetic Form of the Music Therapy Session Kenneth Aigen (Case Material from Paul Nordoff and Clive Tobbins -- CASE THREE Improvisation and Play in the Therapeutic Engagement of a Five-Year-Old Boy with Physical and Interpersonal Problems Pamela Bartram -- CASE FOUR A Research Case Study on the Effectiveness of Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy in Accomplishing Musical and Socio-emotional Goals for a Child with Autism John Carpente -- CASE FIVE Growing Up Alone: Analytical Music Therapy with Children of Parents Treated Within a Drug and Substance Abuse Program Juliane Kowski -- CASE SIX Speaking Without Talking: Fifty Analytical Music Therapy Sessions with a Boy with Selective Mutism Wolfgang Mahns -- CASE SEVEN The Impact of Creative Music Therapy on a Child's AbilityTo Relate Interpersonally John F. Mahoney -- CASE EIGHT The Knight Inside the Armor: Music Therapy with a Deprived Teenager Simona Katz Nirensztein -- CASE NINE Edward Paul Nordoff Clive Robbins -- CASE TEN Anna Paul Nordoff Clive Robbins -- CASE ELEVEN Preverbal Communication through Music to Overcome a Child's Language Disorder Amelia Oldfield -- CASE TWELVE Self-Communications in Creative Music Therapy Carol M. Robbins Clive Robbins -- CASE THIRTEEN Creative Music Therapy in Bringing Order, Change and Communicativeness to the Life of a Brain-Injured Adolescent Clive E. Robbins Carol M. Robbins -- CASE FOURTEEN The Use of Piano Improvisation in Developing Interaction and Participation in a Blind Boy with Behavioral Disturbances Helen Shoemark.

CASE FIFTEEN Being Beverley: Music Therapy with a Troubled Eight-Year-Old Girl Helen M. Tyler -- CASE SIXTEEN The Case of Marianne: Repetition and Musical form in Psychosis Jos De Backer Jan Van Camp -- CASE SEVENTEEN Case Study-Michael: Music and Loss Colin Andrew Lee -- CASE EIGHTEEN Living In Playing: A Group Case Study Colin Andrew Lee -- CASE NINETEEN Moving Into the Age of Aquarius: Aesthetic Music Therapy with a String Quartet -- CASE TWENTY Singing My Way Through the Cancer, the Darkness, and the Fear Maria Logis Alan Turry -- CASE TWENTY-ONE An Audio Case of Maria and Alan: A microanalysis of Our Song Improvisation "There, There." Alan Turry -- CASE TWENTY TWO Reclaiming a Positive Identity: Music Therapy in the Aftermath of a Stroke Nancy McMaster -- CASE TWENTY-THREE Group Improvisation Therapy: The Experience of One Man with Schizophrenia Helen Odell Miller -- CASE TWENTY-FOUR The Revival of the Frozen Sea Urchin: Music Therapy with a Psychiatric Patient Inge Nygaard Pedersen -- CASE TWENTY-FIVE Analytical Music Therapy and the "Detour Through Fantasy" (The Case of Curtis) Mary Priestley -- CASE TWENTY-SIX Changes in Images, Life Events and Music in Analytical Music Therapy: A Reconstruction of Mary Priestley's Case Study of "Curtis" Lillian Eyre -- CASE TWENTY-SEVEN Mia's Fourteenth - The Symphony of Fate: Psychodynamic Improvisation Therapy with a Music Therapy Student in Training Benedikte Barth Scheiby -- CASE TWENTY-EIGHT Music Is About Feelings: Music Therapy With A Young Man Suffering From Anorexia Nervosa Gro Trondalen -- CASE TWENTY-NINE Musical Improvisation in the Treatment of a Man with Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder José Van Den Hurk Henk Smeijsters.