Music Therapy and Neurological Rehabilitation

Simon Gilbertson is a trained musician and music therapist. He is a lecturer in music therapy at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland, and was previously Head of Music Therapy at the Klinik Holthausen in Germany. After gaining his doctorate at David Aldridge's Chair for Qualitative Research in Medicine at the University Witten Herdecke he went to work with David at the Nordoff-Robbins Centre in Witten, Germany.

Readers may pick chapters of particular interest to them or read the whole book. While it is not a light read, those wanting to deepen their thinking about the way music therapy works and how it can be applied, will find it a feast worth digesting.

• 1. Looking for the why, how and when, David Aldridge. 2. Gesture and dialogue: music therapy as praxis aesthetic and embodied hermeneutic, David Aldridge. 3. Dialogic degenerative diseases and health as a performed aesthetic, David Aldridge. 4. An overview of therapeutic initiatives when working with patients suffering from dementia, Hanne Mette Ridder. 5. Music therapy in neurorehabilitation with people who have experienced traumatic brain injury: a literature review, Simon K. Gilbertson. 6. Encounter with the conscious being of patients in persistent vegetative state, Ansgar Herkenrath. 7. `Swing in my brain': active music therapy for people living with multiple sclerosis, Wolfgang Schmid. 8. A music therapy intervention for patients suffering with chronic aphasia: a controlled study, Monika Jungblut. 9. `Traditional oriental music therapy' in neurological rehabilitation, Gerhard Tucek. 10. What are the therapeutic effects of art therapies in the primary treatment of paraplegic patients? A qualitative study with 21 patients treated at the Herdecke community hospital, Anke Scheel-Sailer. 11. Coda, David Aldridge. References. Index.