Lullabies are "transferential transitional songs": Further considerations on resistance in music therapy

Journal/Book: Arts in Psychotherapy. 1995; 22: 353-357.

Abstract: Responds to D. S. Austin and J. M. Dvorkin's (see PA, Vol 81:26823) article, focusing on further psychoanalytic implications of the case of a 41-yr-old female patient's resistance as a result of the uncovering of a hidden lullaby. The paper introduces the term "transferential transitional music" to integrate 2 interrelated psychoanalytic theories: patient's songs are transferential music (J. B. Rosenbaum, 1963), and lullabies are transitional tunes (M. McDonald, 1990). The term is also applied to a lullaby by Robert Schumann.

Note: lullabies as transferential transitional songs; resistance in music therapy; 41 yr old female; commentary

Keyword(s): Psychotherapeutic resistance; music therapy; adulthood ; professional criticism

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