Kreativ terapi (konstterapi, musikterapi, dramaterapi)

Kan vi må bättre genom att läsa litteratur? Vilken litteratur i så fall? Och hur går det egentligen till att läsa i hälsofrämjande eller personlighetsutvecklande syfte? Frågorna utgör utgångspunkter i det första större verket om biblioterapi på sv...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A stellar collection of prompts and invitations that will enrich any journal' KATHERINE MAY 'This book is not only beautiful, but exceedingly helpful. I recommend it to every dreamer' ELIZABETH GILBERT 'Galvanising and c...

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In From Perception to Pleasure, Robert Zatorre discusses why we love music and what enables us to create it, perceive it, and enjoy it from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience, explaining how we get from perception of sound patterns to pleas...

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There are about 130 million books in the world and they are being added to at a rate of 4 million a year or so. Which ones, therefore, should we really read? What are the books that count? Which ones are going to make a real difference to us in th...

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Stephen Johnson undersöker hur den ryske tonsättaren Dmitrij Sjostakovitjs musik tog form under Stalins terrorregim och gestaltade det förtryckta folkets rädsla och hopp. Johnson skriver om musikens läkande inverkan på människor som lider av psyki...

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Music, Health, and the Body: Cross-Cultural Perspectives focuses on the role of music in understanding new dimensions of health and healing through a unique relationship between identity, social interactions and the human body under the overarchin...

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Dementia is the most significant health issue facing our aging population. With no cure to date, there is an urgent need for the development of interventions that can alleviate symptoms of dementia and ensure optimal well-being for people with dem...

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Imagination allows individuals and groups to think beyond the here-and-now, to envisage alternatives, to create parallel worlds, and to mentally travel through time. Imagination is both extremely personal (for example, people imagine unique future...

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In Resonant Recoveries, author Jillian C. Rogers shows what a profound effect World War I had on French musical life as musicians and their audiences turned to music as a consolatory practice to help them mourn their losses and heal their wounds.

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Investigation of the role of music in early life and learning has been somewhat fragmented, with studies being undertaken within a range of fields with little apparent conversation across disciplinary boundaries, and with an emphasis on pre-school...

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This is a book about reading, drawing, and getting better--and what they have to do with one another. The British essayist, artist, and psychoanalyst Marion Milner (1900-1996) thought deeply about how reading, drawing, and getting better related t...

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Music therapy is an established profession that is recognized around the world. As a catalyst to promote health and wellbeing music therapy is both objective and explorative. The Oxford Handbook of Queer and Trans Music Therapy (QTMT) is a celebra...

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Collaborative Insights provides new, interdisciplinary perspectives on the relationship between music and well-being at every point in life.

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In recent years, a psychological perspective has gained increasing acceptance in the education provided to musicians: teachers, performers, and "creatives" alike. Research in music psychology has revealed how musicians acquire the ability to conve...

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The field of music education research is often concerned with studies and measurements that highlight the deficits rather than inquire about the developmental and dispositional strengths exhibited in children's musical behaviors. Before We Teach M...

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We make or listen to music for the powerful effect it has on our emotions, and we can't imagine our lives without music. Yet we tend to know nothing about the intricate networks that neurons create throughout our brains to make music possible. The...

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Many common vocal health problems may be successfully self-managed by singers. Even when a visit to the doctor is needed, an understanding of how the voice works, and, more importantly, when, and why it doesn't work, empowers the singer, and can m...

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In Dreaming and Thinking in Music, Bruce Adolphe harnesses his wide-ranging experiences as a composer and educator to tackle one of the more elusive questions in music composition: how to get from technical ability to creative creation. Unlike sta...

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DK brings you an all-encompassing knitting book jam-packed with pretty patterns, savvy stitches and more! With over 120 patterns to choose from for a variety of knitting stitches, this design book is sure to unleash your potential and inspire your...

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'Sheku believes that the future of classical music is bright, and in the hands of young musicians like him, it certainly is' John Suchet Music is what makes us alive, mindful and connected to each other. Music is what makes us human. This is the p...

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Get a quick, expert overview of the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions in health care. This practical resource compiled by Dr. Olivia Swedberg Yinger provides a concise, useful overview of the profession of music therapy, inclu...

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Art and Expressive Therapies Within the Medical Model explores how to best collaborate across disciplines as art and expressive therapists continue to become increasingly prevalent within the medical community. This collection of diverse chapters ...

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Paediatric psychoanalyst Donald W. Winnicott is widely recognized as a remarkable clinician. Deprivation, regression, play, antisocial tendencies and "the use of the object" are part of the many clinical conceptions he conceived, and here Laura De...

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In The Creative Therapist in Practice Hillary and Bradford Keeney present a radically innovative approach to the practice of therapy. Combining improvisational performing arts, action-oriented cybernetics, and ecstatic healing traditions, therapy ...

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Within this book, Gray argues that moments of profound existential importance are given to us in the presence of Art, and that such moments are important motivators in our personal, civic, and moral lives. Using the work of Jung, Freud, Berger, an...

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In psychotherapy clients sometimes experience breakthrough moments - profound moments in which their world and how they view themselves is changed for ever. But what exactly occurs during such moments? In Breakthrough Moments in Arts-Based Psychot...

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The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politics of applied performance, both in the academy an...

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Starting from the early modern presumption of the incorporation of role with authority, Jean Lambert explores male teachers as representing and engaging with types of authority in English plays and dramatic entertainments by Shakespeare and his co...

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In this thoughtful and revelatory book, Wood explores enduring and powerful theories on art, creativity, and what Jung called the "creative spirit" in order to illuminate how artists can truly understand what it means to be a creator. By bringing ...

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Integrative Play Therapy with Individuals, Families and Groups is a complete theory-to-practice introduction to a comprehensive integrative model of play therapy, developed by Shlomo Ariel. It synthesizes numerous concepts, methods and techniques ...

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