The authors show that where neuro-degenerative disease restricts movement, communication and thought processes and impairs the sense of self, music therapy is an effective intervention in neurological rehabilitation, successfully restoring the performance of identity within which clients can recognise themselves.

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.

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.