Music Psychotherapy and Anxiety

Rebecca Zarate is an Associate Professor and coordinator of the music therapy and anxiety lab at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr Zarate is a music psychotherapist, musician, researcher, and educator of music therapy and the arts therapies. Her research focuses on social anxiety and improvisation-based music therapy with young adults. She serves on the leadership council for Music Therapy Without Borders, and as an editorial board member for the Journal of Music Therapy.

Section 1 Theoretical Basis
1. Music Psychotherapy and The Way of Improvisation
2. The Collective Impact of Anxiety
3. The Social Architecture of Anxiety and Potential Role of Music Therapy
4. Shared Value of Mental Health, Music Therapy, and Sustainable Practices

Section 2 Psychological Dimensions
5. Anxiety in Clinical Contexts
6. Attachment systems and Anxiety
7. The Broader Picture: Collective Anxiety as a Cultural Complex
8. Our Bodies and Minds in the Affective Life of Anxiety

Section 3: Clinical - Cultural Dimensions of Music, Music Therapy and Anxiety
9. Music, Stress and Anxiety
10. Conceptualizing Musical Environments as an Anti-Stress, Sustainable Movement: Music, Health and Performed States
11. Music Therapy Research and Practice: Anxiety in Context
12. Critical Improvisation. A Transformative Framework in Music Psychotherapy
13. Psychodynamic Assessment and Evaluation of Anxiety
14. Music-Cantered Psychodynamic Evaluation Method
15. The Sounds of Anxiety and Their Meaning: Musical Expressions, Representations and Themes
16. The Sounds of Anxiety: Methods with Children and Adolescents
17. The Sounds of Anxiety: Methods for Working with Adults

Section 4: Applied Dimensions
18. Collective Anxiety and Critical Improvisation: A Case Study with a Women's Rights Chorus
19. Critical Improvisation as Arts-Based Research Inquiry into Anxiety: Shaping Transformational Communities
20. Applied Teaching in Critical Improvisation and Anxiety: Expanding the Capacity for the Practice of Music Therapy and Anxiety