COVER -- Music and Altered States -- Contents -- 1 Music, Consciousness and Altered States David Aldridge -- 2 Music and Altered States of Consciousness: An Overview Jörg Fachner -- 3 Music and Trance John J. Pilch -- 4 The Effects of Listening to Monotonous Drumming on Subjective Experiences Csaba Szabó -- 5 Perception and Responses to Schemata in Different Cultures Western and Arab Music Dalia Cohen -- 6 Music as Medicine: The Adyghs' Case Alla N. Sokolova -- 7 Music and Drug-Induced Altered States of Consciousness Jörg Fachner -- 8 The Role of Music in Healing with Hallucinogens Tribal and Western Studies Marlene Dobkin de Rios -- 9 Polyrhythms Supporting a Pharmacotherapy Music in the Iboga Initiation Ceremony in Gabon Uwe Maas and Süster Strubelt -- 10 Dangerous Music Working with the Destructive and Healing Powers of Popular Music in the Treatment of Substance Abusers Tsvia Horesh -- 11 On a Journey to Somatic Memory Theoretical and Clinical Approaches for the Treatment of Traumatic Memories in Music Therapy-Based Drug Rehabilitation Marko Punkanen -- 12 Music Therapy and Spirituality A Transcendental Understanding of Suffering David Aldridge -- 13 Music Therapy and Spirituality and the Challenges of End-Stage Illness Lucanne Magill -- REFERENCES -- THE CONTRIBUTORS -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX.