A phenomenological analysis of Nordoff-Robbins approach to music therapy: The lived experience of clinical improvisation

Journal/Book: Music Therapy. 1992; 11: 120-141.

Abstract: Eight clinicians and 2 directors at the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Clinic at New York University in 1991 were interviewed about their lived experience of clinical improvisation. Data generated by the interviews were subjected to phenomenological analysis. Results are discussed in terms of natural ability, musical biography, vulnerability, pressure, spontaneity and creativity, interplay of intuition and rationality, and a sense of self. Interviewees were presented with the results and discussion, and their responses are incorporated in the conclusion.

Note: phenomenological analysis of lived experience of clinical improvisation; clinicians & directors at Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Clinic

Keyword(s): Music therapy; psychotherapeutic techniques; psychotherapeutic processes; clinicians ; adulthood

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