Music Therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury

A Light on a Dark Night

Simon Gilbertson, David Aldridge

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9781843106654
• eBook ISBN: 9781846428289
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Neurology
• Index: Psychology

Musical improvisation is an increasingly recognised rehabilitative therapy for people who have experienced traumatic brain injury initially thought to be `unreachable' or `non-responsive'.

Music Therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury demonstrates how music therapy can be used to attend to the holistic, rather than purely functional, needs of people affected by severe head trauma. Divided into three parts, the first section provides an introduction to the effects brain injury has on a person's livelihood. The second is a comprehensive review of available literature on the use of music therapy in the neurorehabilitative setting. The final section examines three case studies designed according to `therapeutic narrative analysis', an adaptive research method that uses interviewing and video, which focuses on the unique relationship between the professional and the patient.

This book will give clinicians key notes for practice and a vision of the integral role music therapy can have in the successful rehabilitation from brain injury.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• By The Same Author
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Illustration
• Chapter 1 Traumatic Brain Injury and Rehabilitation
• Chapter 2 Music Therapy with People Who Have Experienced Traumatic Brain Injury: What the Literature Says
• Chapter 3 Therapeutic Narrative Analysis: How We Look at Cases
• Chapter 4 Bert’s Story: Changing Perspectives – Identifying and Realizing Communicative Potential in Early Isolated States
• Chapter 5 Neil’s Story: From Distress and Agitation to Humour and Joy – The Creation of a Dialogue
• Chapter 6 Mark’s Story: A Fusion of Two Worlds – Physical Dependency and Creative Partnership
• Chapter 7 The Narrative Explicated
• References
• Subject Index
• Author Index