Table of Contents -- Introduction Kenneth E. Bruscia -- CASE ONE Creative Fantasy, Music, and Lyric Improvisation with a Gifted Acting-Out Boy Kenneth Aigen -- CASE TWO Improvisation and Play in the Therapeutic Engagement of a Five-Year-Old Boy with Physical and Interpersonal Problems Pamela Bartram -- CASE THREE Punker, Bassgirl, and Dingo-Man: Perspectives on Adolescents' Music Therapy Jaakko Erkkilä -- CASE FOUR Crossing the Divide: Exploring Identities within Communities Fragmented by Gang Violence Sunelle Fouche Kerryn Torrance -- CASE FIVE The Boy that Nobody Wanted: Creative Experiences for a Boy with Severe Emotional Problems Fran Herman -- CASE SIX Group Music Therapy with a Classroom of 6-8 Year-Old Hyperactive-Learning Disabled Children Julie Hibben -- CASE SEVEN Growing Up Alone: Analytical Music Therapy with Children of Parents Treated Within a Drug and Substance Abuse Program Juliane Kowski -- CASE EIGHT All Her "Yesterdays:" An Adolescent's Search for A Better Today through Music Claire Lefebvre -- CASE NINE The Knight Inside the Armor: Music Therapy with a Deprived Teenager Simona Katz Nirensztein -- CASE TEN Exploring Issues of Control through Interactive, Improvised Music Making: Music Therapy Diagnostic Assessment and Short Term Treatment with a Mother and Daughter in a Psychiatric Unit Amelia Oldfield -- CASE ELEVEN Just Don't Do It: A Group's Micro Journey into Music and Life1 Mercédès Pavlicevic -- CASE TWELVE Being Beverley: Music Therapy with a Troubled Eight-Year-Old Girl Helen M. Tyler.