Thursday, February 05, 2009

All in the Mind - Music: Is it Really Therapeutic?

Interesting show on music and healing. Lots of good links to papers and research at the bottom.

Music: Is it really therapeutic?

Music undoubtedly makes us feel good. But is it therapeutic? Does it have a place in healing the psychological, even physical, scars of illness? From the intimacy of a neonatal ward to the ravages of cancer treatment, enter the world of three Australian music therapists pushing the boundaries of medicine.

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Guests

Dr Helen Shoemark
Senior music therapist (co-ordinator) for Neonates & Infant Program, Music in Health Program
The Royal Children's Hospital
http://www.rch.org.au/musictherapy/staff/index.cfm?doc_id=1082#shoemark

Dr Barbara Daveson
Head of the Music Therapy Department
The Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
London
http://www.rhn.org.uk/index.asp

Dr Clare O'Callaghan
Music Therapy Coordinator
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
St Vincent's Hospital
The University of Melbourne

Lisa Roulston
Participated in music therapy at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

James Clift
Participated in music therapy at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Josie Anderson
Josie's daughter, Charlene, participated in music therapy at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Loren and Henry Hewitt
Participated in music therapy at the Royal Children's Hospital

Further Information

Is Music a Universal Language
All in the Mind, 2007

Music and Intelligence: The Debate Continues
All in the Mind, 2004

Music on your Mind
All in the Mind, 2002

Music Therapy at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Music Therapy Department, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne

Music Therapy at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, London

Publications

Title: The music therapy assessment tool for low awareness states
Author: Barbara Daveson, WL Magee, I Crewe, G Beaumont, P Kenealy
Publisher: International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, Dec 2007

Title: A description of a music therapy meta-model in neuro-disability and neuro-rehabilitation for use with children, adolescents and adults
Author: Barbara Daveson
Publisher: Australian Journal of Music Therapy, 2008

Title: Music therapy and childhood cancer: goals, methods, patient choice and control during diagnosis, intensive treatment, transplant and palliative care
Author: Barbara Daveson
Publisher: American Music Therapy Association, 114-119 2001

Title: Recent findings about neural correlates of music pertinent to music therapy across the lifespan
Author: Clare O'Callaghan
Publisher: Music Therapy Perspectives, 17(1), 1999, 32-36

Title: Music, Health and loss throughout the ages: A precursor to music therapy in palliative care
Author: Clare O'Callaghan
Invited article for Eminent Scientist of the Year Award: Music Therapy in Palliative Care, International Promotional Research Council

Title: Music Therapy as a non-pharmacological anxiolytic for paediatric radiotherapy patients
Author: Clare O'Callaghan, M Sexton, G Wheeler
Publisher: Journal of Music Therapy; Summer 2004; 41, 2

Title: Music Therapy's relevance in a cancer hospital researched through a constructivist lens
Author: Clare O'Callaghan, Fiona McDermott
Publisher: Journal of Music Therapy; Summer 2004; 41, 2

Title: The Future of Music Therapy and Medicine
Author: Michael Thaut
Publisher: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1060: 303-308, 2005

Music

Track title: Therapy
Composer: James Clift
Written as part of a music therapy program at the Peter MacCullum Cancer Centre.

CD title: Piano Music Volume IV - Debussy
Track title: Track 12, Clair de Lune

CD title: Gabriel Yared: Discovery
Track title: Track 11, A Short Tale (soundtrack in film, Shamrock)
Composer: Gabriel Yared

CD title: Gabriel Yared
Track title: Track 14, Aria (soundtrack in film, L'instinct De L'ange),
Artist: Gabriel Yared

CD title: Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9
Track title: Track 1 Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat, I. Allegro
Artist: Perahia, Murray, English Chamber Orchestra
Composer: Mozart

CD title: Music for the Films of Buster Keaton (Go West)
Track title: Track 1, Down On Luck
Artist: Bill Frisell

Track title: Am I Dreaming
Composer: Charlene Anderson
Written as part of the music therapy program at the Peter MacCullum Cancer Centre

Presenter

Natasha Mitchell


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