The book examines the origins and theory of AMT (including a contribution on the subject from Mary Priestley), before exploring its uses in various contexts. Chapters cover AMT in counselling and rehabilitation, with adults and children and with nonverbal clients. A concluding section discusses aspects of the training of music therapy students.

Preface. PART 1: 1. Analytical Music Therapy - origin and development, Mary Priestley and Johannes Th. Eschen. 2. Analytical Music Therapy - introduction, Johannes Th. Eschen. 3.Theoretical bases of Analytical Music Therapy, Susan Hadley. PART 2: 4. Some considerations on the treatment techniques of psychoanalytically-established music therapy, Mechtild Jahn-Langenberg. 5. Analytical Music Therapy with adults in mental health and in counselling work, Inge Nygaard Pedersen. 6. The sound of silence - the use of Analytical Music Therapy techniques with a nonverbal client, Juliane Kowski. 7. The psychodynamic function of music in Analytical Music Therapy with children, Wolfgang Mahns. 8. The role of music in Analytical Music Therapy - music as a carrier of stories, Colleen Purdon. 9. Improvisation as a musical healing tool and life approach, Benedikte B. Scheiby. PART 3: 10. Supervision of music therapy students in a music therapy graduate training programme, Barbara Hesser. 11. Self-experience for music therapy students, Inge Nygaard Pedersen. 12. Psychodynamic movement, Inge Nygaard Pedersen. List of Contributors. Index.