Working through Depression: a case study of a year's work in music therapy with a suicidal patient

Abstract: This paper discusses music therapy sessions with a 42 year old man presenting with depression and self-mutilation, much of whose life had been circumscribed by a vomit phobia. Drawing on psychodynamic theory, the therapist looks at (l) the value of the holding function as transformational space in the tripartite relationship of music therapy (2) Violence as a dynamic. (3) transference. This paper will be published by the BSMT late l992, price on application.

Keyword(s): Case-study, suicide, depression.

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