Listening to Music in Psychotherapy

Senior Accredited Practitioner, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and Graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama

Conversation with Mercedes Pavlicevic — Professor of Music Therapy in South Africa. Conversation with Katie Melua — singer. Conversation with Baroness Julia Neuberger. Conversation with Benjamin Zephaniah — poet. A gathering of musical experiences. How do we understand what we know? Philosophy and sociology of the experience of music. The psychology of the experience of music. The ‘habitus’ of the experience of music and music therapy. The experience of the origins of self-in-relationship in neuroscience and music. The experience of listening to music within psychotherapy. ‘A two-part invention’ case study. Reflection and integration of ideas on the experience of listening to music in psychotherapy. Musical analysis of the experience. Where are we now? Coda.