Music Therapy in Palliative Care: New Voices

Abstract

Introduction / David Aldridge -- 1. Music Therapy and the Creative Act / David Aldridge -- 2. Music Therapy as Milieu in the Hospice and Paediatric Oncology Ward / Trygve Aasgaard -- 3. Lyrical Themes in Songs Written by Palliative Care Patients / Clare C. O'Callaghan -- 4. Creativity and Communication Aspects of Music Therapy in a Children's Hospital / Beth Dun -- 5. Music Therapy at the End of Life: Searching for the Rite of Passage / Bridgit Hogan -- 6. Music Therapy in Chronic Degenerative Illness: Reflecting the Dynamic Sense of Self / Wendy Magee -- 7. Music: A Means of Comfort / Susan Weber -- 8. Music Therapists' Personal Reflections on Working with Those, Who Are Living with HIV/AIDS / Nigel Alan Hartley -- 9. Music Therapy with HIV Positive and AIDS Patients / Lutz Neugebauer -- 10. The Implications of Melodic Expression for Music Therapy with a Breast Cancer Patient / Gudrun Aldridge -- 11. Writing and Therapy: Into a New Tongue / Rob Finlayson.