Analytical Music Therapy

This book brings together the professional experiences of eminent analytical music therapists from Europe and the USA. 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.

Written by experienced and highly regarded analytic music therapists, and edited by Johannes Th. Eschen, one of the first ever AMT students, this book will be of interest to practitioners in many branches of music therapy and related disciplines.

Johannes Th. Eschen was Professor of Music Therapy and founding Director of the Institut fr Musiktherapie der Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hamburg. He worked as a music therapist at the Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, the Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus Herdecke and in private practice. He was one of the founding members of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Musiktherapie, of which he was Chairman 1977-85, President 1985-6 and Honorary Chairman from 1990. In 1998 he was awarded an honorary doctorate of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hamburg.