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How We Hear Music. The Relationship between Music and the Hearing Mechanism

Beament, James (2001). How We Hear Music. The Relationship between Music and the Hearing Mechanism. Suffolk:Boydell & Brewer.

Reviewed by Annemiek Vink

When I was a small boy in the 1920s, any conversation about music interested me, and I took every opportunity to ask questions. What do you mean by a violin is tuned in […]

Inside Music Therapy: Client Experiences

Hibben, Julie (1999). Inside Music Therapy: Client Experiences. Gilsum, NH:Barcelona Publishers.

Reviewed by Randi Rolvsjord

This is a very special book about music therapy. The focus of the book is the clients’ experiences in music therapy. The book is a collection of narratives gathered in different ways: Some clients have written there own narrative, some […]

Varme øyeblikk. Om musikk, helse og livskvalitet

Ruud, Even (2001). Varme øyeblikk. Om musikk, helse og livskvalitet. Oslo: Unipub forlag.

Reviewed by Helen Wikland

Even Ruud kom under hösten 2001 ut med en ny bok, Varme øyeblikk. Han önskar med den visa hur musik och kulturaktiviteter kan spela en roll i förhållande till hälsa och livskvalitet. Boken är uppdelad i tre avsnitt […]

Jenseits des Wortes. Musiktherapie mit komatösen Patienten auf der Intensivstation

Gustorff, Dagmar/Hannich, Hans-Joachim (2000).Jenseits des Wortes. Musiktherapie mit komatösen Patienten auf der Intensivstation.[Beyond the word. Music therapy with patients in comatose state at the intensive care ward.] Bern: Verlag Hans Huber.

Reviewed by Carola Krautschick

This book gives encouragement and affirmation to the work of all people accompanying and looking after patients in comatose state. […]

The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

Miller, Geoffrey (2001)The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature. London: Vintage.Paperback edition. 538 pages. Price £8.99. ISBN 0-09-928824-9

Reviewed by Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, Nordfjord Psychiatric Center, N-6770 Nordfjordeid, Norway.

Very rarely does one come across a book as illustrating of its main thesis as Miller’s Mating Mind. From start […]

Ethical Thinking in Music Therapy

Dileo, Cheryl (2000).Ethical Thinking in Music Therapy. Cherry Hill, NJ: Jeffrey Books.

Reviewed by Ruth Eckoff

I got the opportunity to review a most interesting and useful book, Ethical Thinking in Music Therapy by Cheryl Dileo. I use the word opportunity because before starting the review I found myself in different situations where I had […]

Die Sozialmusiktherapie (SMT)

Schwabe, Christoph and Haase, Ulrike (1998). Die Sozialmusiktherapie (SMT). Crossener Schriften zur Musiktherapie Band VII, Inc. 307 pages, ISBN 3-933358-06-X

Reviewed by Thomas Wosch, Dr., Lecturer, University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal

The latest music therapy method of Christoph Schwabe and Ulrike Haase, the “social music therapy” (SMT), is a quite new book and it is […]