期刊名称：Approaches : Music Therapy & Special Music Education
电子版ISSN：1791-9622
出版年度：2011
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：108-110
出版社：Greek Association of Primary Music Education Teachers
摘要：This book is the first to focus on music therapists from different countries working with patients suffering from addiction problems. It covers a range of different approaches and clinical settings, proving the necessity and value of music therapy in this field of practice. It also demonstrates the need for music therapists to work with flexibility on the difficult and complex nature of addiction. The editors, David Aldridge and J.rg Fachner who have both written chapters in this book, give a clear description of the nature, characteristics and symptoms of addiction in the first two chapters of the book. They both look at the relationship of the patients with the music and other social forms of expression and how these social codes can affect the person's identity in a negative way. Also, they refer to the person's need of being coherent and satisfied not through drug use and deviancy, but through performing music with others in a group, in order to achieve a vital connection with the body and emotional expression. Different forms of music therapy group processes are proposed, such as listening and music making, as well as creation of songs, that can help patients perform and express feelings in the 'here and now' and achieving a healthy contact with their bodies offering them creative alternatives
